Laleg Taous-Meriem
Laleg Taous-Meriem
Category : Mathematics - Computer science - Artificial intelligence
LALEG Taous-Meriem
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Associate Professor / Senior Researcher Inria Research Centre, France Head of the BOOST project-team (bio-informed monitoring and optimization for enhanced sports and health) Fields of specialization: Mathematics - Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence |
Origins & Education
Born in 1981 in Tizi-Ouzou (Algeria), Taous-Meriem Laleg completed her high school education at Lycée Tadmail in the wilaya of Tizi-Ouzou before attending the National Polytechnic School of Algiers, from which she graduated in 2004 as a Control System Engineer.
Her academic journey continued in France where she obtained a Master's degree from Paris-Sud University in 2005, followed by a Ph.D. from INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt in 2008. She also holds a Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), attesting to her capacity to supervise high-level research work.
Scientific Career
Following her doctoral studies, Professor Laleg has developed a remarkable scientific career in the field of applied mathematics, signal processing, and artificial intelligence. She specializes in developing mathematical models, signal processing and estimation algorithms, as well as control and AI-based methods for the characterization, monitoring, and control of complex systems in engineering, healthcare, and sports.
Her earlier work focused on water systems, contributing to the development of innovative approaches for the optimization and monitoring of desalination and wastewater treatment plants. In parallel, she has made significant contributions to the analysis and characterization of biomedical signals for health monitoring (epilepsy detection using EEG signals, cardiovascular diseases monitoring, brain-heart interaction, stress indicators...).
Currently, she leads a multidisciplinary project on bio-informed monitoring and optimization to enhance performance and well-being in both sports and health contexts, through the BOOST project-team at Inria.
Distinctions & Recognition
Professor Laleg has published extensively in prestigious scientific journals: 5 book chapters, 90 journal papers, 170 conference papers, and 18 patents.
Personal distinctions:
- Featured in the IEEE Control magazine (Volume 39, Issue 5, October 2019)
- Shortlisted as one of the top three Academic of Distinction candidates for the Leadership Excellence for Women Awards (LEWAS), award ceremony October 23rd, 2018
- Elevated as IEEE senior member in 2015
- French assistant professor qualification, Applied Mathematics, and Control sections, 2009
- Best poster award, MATHMOD conference, Vienna, Austria, February 2006
- INRIA Graduate Fellow, 2005-2008
- Honored by the Algerian president for the best national academic performance in 2004
Student awards:
- Ph.D. student Mohamed Bahloul won first place at the IEEE SSD'21 Ph.D. Students Contest in 2021
- Remote visiting student Bilel Azzabi won the best presentation award in the international signal processing conference, Paris in October 2021
- Ph.D. student Mohamed Bahloul won the Dean's Excellence award in 2021
- Ph.D. student Yasmine Marani won the Dean's scholarship award in 2021
- Ph.D. student Abderrazak Chahid won the Dean's Excellence award in 2020
- Best student paper from Africa and Middle East region award at the International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference (EMBC), July 2020 with Ph.D. student Abderrazak Chahid
- Best student paper from Africa and Middle East region award at the International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference (EMBC), July 2018 with Ph.D. student Mohamed Bahloul
- Best paper award, IEEE International Conference on Control Engineering and Information Technology 2015 (with Ph.D. student M. Usman Majeed)
Editorial activities in journals:
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transaction on Network Systems (2024-present)
- Technical Area Committees member EURASIP Technical Area Committee, Theoretical and methodological trends in signal processing (TMTSP) (2024-2026)
- Editor, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control (2021-present)
- Associate Editor, IEEE Systems Journal (2021-present)
- Associate Editor, IEEE Access Journal (2020-2023)
Editorial activities in international conferences:
- Vice-Chair of the Technical Committee TC 8.2. Biological and Medical Systems for Social Media (2024-2026)
- Member of the IEEE Control Conference Editorial Board (CEB), ACC, CDC (2019-present)
- Associate editor of IFAC World Congress 2023
- Associate editor of the IEEE MTNS (2022-2023)
- Associate editor of the IEEE European Conference editorial board (2020-2024)
- Technical committee member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), biological and medical systems (TC8.2) (2019-present)
She has also served on numerous program and scientific committees for international conferences, including the American Control Conference (ACC), International Conference on Systems and Control, IEEE International Conference on Control, Engineering, and Information Technology, and many others.
Impact & Influence
Professor Laleg's research work has a significant impact across several application domains. She develops mathematical models, signal processing and estimation algorithms, as well as control and AI-based methods for the characterization, monitoring, and control of complex systems in engineering, healthcare, and sports.
Her earlier work on water systems contributed to the development of innovative approaches for the optimization and monitoring of desalination and wastewater treatment plants. In parallel, she has made important contributions to the analysis and characterization of biomedical signals for health monitoring (epilepsy detection using EEG signals, cardiovascular diseases monitoring, brain-heart interaction, stress indicators...).
Currently, she leads a multidisciplinary project on bio-informed monitoring and optimization to enhance performance and well-being in both sports and health contexts, through the BOOST project-team she founded at Inria.
Learn More
Email: meriem.laleg@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taous-meriem-laleg-7734907/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oyKikokAAAAJ&hl=fr
KAUST: https://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/study/faculty/taous-kirati
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Taous-Meriem-Laleg-Kirati
DBLP: https://dblp.org/pid/125/5584.html
HAL: https://cv.hal.science/mtlaleg
arXiv: https://arxiv.org/search/?searchtype=author&query=Taous-Meriem%20Laleg-Kirati