Pr. Dr. Abderrafiaa Koukam (Abder Koukam) is a professor at the “Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard” (UTBM). He obtained his Ph.D at the “Université de Nancy 1” (Université de Lorraine) and his Habilitation to direct research at the “Université de Bourgogne”, Dijon. He was Director of the “Laboratoire Systèmes et Transports”, Vice President of the Scientific Council of UTBM (2003-2007 and 2016-2020), Director of Computer Science Department and the founder of the team Multi-agent Systems and Optimization. His research focuses on multi-agent systems: modeling, simulation, verification. He supervised more than twenty Ph.D thesis and assumed the coordination of two European projects (TRASCOM 2002-2004, SURE 2003-2005),several national projects (CRISTAL, ANR SafePlatoon,…), and contracts with industry in the following areas: transportation planning, mobile networks, traffic flow simulation in industrial sites, and intelligent vehicles. He was appointed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research as a member of the National Council of Universities. Since 2021, he is chairman of the UTBM’s administration Council restricted to associate professors and full professors.