Abdessemed Yassine was born on January, 28th 1959 at Batna, Algeria. He carried out under-graduated studies at the University of Constantine, Algeria from 1978 till 1980 and has obtained the degree of bachelor of engineering from the university of Algiers-ENPA-Algiers, Algeria in June 1983. From 1985 till 1990 he carried out post- graduated and research studies in power electronics and real-time control of AC electrical drives.

He was awarded the PhD degree from the department of electrical engineering of the University of Bristol, Great-Britain, in January 1991. Ha has the HDR degree from the University of Batna in 2007. He has been associate lecturer during five years at the electrical department, Faculty of Engineering of Bristol. He is now an associate professor in applied electronics, power electronics and control at the Department of Electronics of Batna. He has supervised many final year graduate projects and master by research thesis in electrical engineering and applied electronics, control and robotics. He is currently supervising many doctor’s and master’s thesis in different areas of power electronics and robotics. He has published five international papers in the real-time control of mobile robots, data fusion for the mobile robots localization, fault diagnosis and tolerant control of tele-operated robot arms, and solar photovoltaic energy control. His current main research work areas are power electronics, the neuro-fuzzy logic applied to the control of mobile robots and robot arms, and vision control of robot arms. He is a member of the artificial intelligence team in Productics Research Laboratory (LRP).