While conducting his Ph.D. thesis in Universite de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, he was a research team leader in Laboratoire Centrale des Ponts et Chausses, Paris for the Mpbile Instrumentation Platform (PMI), a flying robot for defects and cracks' inspection in large bridges. He also conducted many projects funded by the French Foundation for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Scientific Committee of the French Army (DGA). He spent 6 months as a visiting scholar in the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA where he developed an overview on Wireless Sensor Networks and their applications in the field of active control.