Mohamed Arezki MellalMohamed Arezki Mellal. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Technology, M'Hamed Bougara University, Algeria and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering, Department of Mechancal Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. Likewise, he was a Visiting Scholar at Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan; Korea Aerospace University, South Korea; and University of Essex, UK. He is a member of the Algerian National Laboratory for Maintenance Education in conjunction with the European Union (Erasmus+). He has also been a committee member for over seventy international conferences. He serves as a regular reviewer for 18 SCI-indexed journals and an editorial board member in seven peer-reviewed international journals. His research interests include developing new bio-inspired optimization methods for solving engineering problems of system dependability, manufacturing and energy efficiency. Read More Read Less