He received the Ph.D. degree in control, signal, and image processing jointly from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, and from the Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakesh, Morocco, in 2005. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher successively with the I3S Laboratory, Sophia Antipolis, France, the LAAS, Toulouse, France, and the GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France. In 2009, he became an Associate Professor within the framework of the "CNRS-Higher Education chairs" program. He is the co-animator of the PCS action for the Labex Persyval