In 2021, as Algeria – like the rest of the world – was still navigating the practical challenges of COVID-19 screening, I built a system designed to address one of the most common bottlenecks at building entrances: the need for simultaneous identity verification and temperature measurement, done quickly, without physical contact, and with a logged…
Graduation
Defending My PhD: A Hybrid Multimodal Biometric System
On 9 July 2025, I defended my PhD thesis in Electronics at Badji Mokhtar – Annaba University, titled: “Development of a Hybrid Multimodal Biometric System.” The work is a result of three years of research into a question that sits at the intersection of signal processing, deep learning, multimodal fusion, and security: can combining two…

