He received his DESS degree in Industrial Engineering, Master degree in Aerospace Engineering and PhD in Industrial Engineering from Laval University (Canada) in 1995, 2000 and 2007 respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Research-Fellow at CIRELT (Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation, Canada) from 2010 to 2012. His main research interests are in the optimal design of production and manufacturing systems, reliability optimization, meta-heuristics and layout design.