He received the engineering degree in computer science from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique (ESI) in Algeria in 2004, the Master’s degree in computer science from University of Paris-Sud in France in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree from Laval University in Canada in 2010. From August 2010 to April 2013, he was a Research Scientist with the Empirical Inference Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany. From May 2013 to July 2015, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow and a Project Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. His main research interests include planning under uncertainty, reinforcement learning, and robotics.