Pr. MOHAMMED LAMINE KHERFI , General Director of digitization and networks at the Ministry of Higher Education.

He received the B.S. degree in computer science from the National Institute of Computer Science, Algeria, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada.
From 2005 to 2013, he was a Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), Canada. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Computer Science, University of Kasdi Merbah, Ouargla, Algeria, and the General Director of digitization and networks at the
Ministry of Higher Education.
He holds a U.S. patent. His research interests include image and multimedia processing, computer vision, and machine learning.