Kamel Abderrahim received the Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the National School of Engineers of Gabes (ENIG, Tunisia) in 1992, and the Master degree in automatic control from Higher School of Sciences and Techniques of Tunis (ESSTT, Tunisia) in 1995, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from National School of Engineers of Tunis (ENIT, Tunisia) in 2000, and the University Habilitation in electrical engineering from the University of Gabes (Tunisia) in 2009. Since 1993, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National School of Engineers of Gabes, University of Gabes (Tunisia), where he is currently a Professor. Since 1995, he has been with the Research Laboratory of Numerical Control of Industrial Processes (LACONPRI) at the National School of Engineers of Gabes, University of Gabes. His current research interests include modeling, identification, observation and control of dynamical systems and more particularly delay systems, hybrid systems and nonlinear systems. He has authored or coauthored over 120 technical papers. From 2002 to 2005, he was the director of the Electrical Engineering Department at the ENIG. And from 2005 to 2011, he was the director of Higher Institute of Industrial Systems (ISSIG, Tunisia). In 2017, he was elected President of the University of Gabes (Tunisia).