Personal profile
Dr Youcef Gheraibia is a Senior Lecturer in Computing (Transnational Education) at De Montfort University (DMU), UK, where he supports and manages TNE computing programmes and partner institutions. He has been endorsed by the Royal Academy of Engineering as an exceptional talent and world leader in artificial intelligence, and he received the National Innovation Award in Algeria in 2016. He has over 19 years of academic, industrial and research experience in computer science, artificial intelligence and safety-critical systems, including previous academic and research roles in Algeria and the UK.
His research interests include bio-inspired optimisation, machine learning, data science, operational research, and the safety assurance of AI and autonomous systems. He is the originator of the Penguins Search Optimisation Algorithm (PeSOA), a nature-inspired metaheuristic later applied to optimising safety requirements in automotive software in collaboration with the University of Hull. His previous work at the University of York's Department of Computer Science included research on runtime decision-making under uncertainty in autonomous vehicles and on legal frameworks, standards and verification practices for infrastructure inspection robotics. His more recent work extends to machine learning applications in healthcare, such as voice disorder detection.
Alongside his research and teaching, Dr Gheraibia contributes to transnational education, academic quality assurance, curriculum development and programme validation.