Dr. Nouredine Hadjsaïd received PhD and the “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” degrees from Grenoble Institute of Technology in 1992 and 1998 respectively. He is presently a full professor at the Engineering and Management Institute of the University of Grenoble Alpes (UGA) – France. He is also a visiting professor at ERIAN/NTU Singapore since 2019.
He has directed the common academia-industry research center between EDF, Schneider Electric and G2Elab (IDEA: Inventer la Distribution Electric de l’Avenir) on smartgrids and renewable energy integration from 2001 to 2013. He is presently the General Director of the Electrical Engineering lab (G2Elab – CNRS/UGA), the Director of an ENEDIS Industrial chair of excellence on “Smartgrids”, the holder of an Artificial Intelligence for energy chair with the MIAI Institute (Grenoble Institute on Artificial Intelligence), and the President of Scientific Council of Think SmartGrids France, the French industrial branch on SmartGrids.
At the international level, he served as the Treasurer of IEEE Power Energy Society (elected worldwide), the vice-chair of IEEE IGETCC (Intelligent Grid and Emerging Technologies Coordination Committee), and the French representative at International Energy Agency for ISGAN-SIRFN Annex. He is presently serving as the Vice-President of IEEE Power and Energy Society for New Initiatives and Outreach.
He was the general conference chair of IEEE PowerTech’2013 held in Grenoble-France and IEEE SG4SC (SmartGrids for SmartCities) held in Paris in 2016.
Dr. Hadjsaïd has published more than 300 scientific papers in international referred journals and conferences, and has authored/co-authored and directed 7 books about power engineering and Smartgrids.