HDR – Amine BRAHIMA

On Wednesday, 11 December 2025, Amine BRAHMIA successfully defended his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) in Computer Science at the University of Haute-Alsace before a highly renowned academic panel. This achievement represents a major milestone in his scientific career and recognizes both the quality and consistency of his contributions.

Entitled “Distributed Approaches to Optimising and Securing Smart Urban Services,” his work tackles key challenges facing smart cities, particularly the integration and security of cyber-physical systems. In a context marked by increasing urban density, growing environmental pressures and accelerating digital transformation, his research highlights the need for distributed digital infrastructures capable of delivering resilience, adaptability and strong data confidentiality guarantees.

After several years focused primarily on teaching responsibilities and cohort management, Amine BRAHMIA renewed his research activity from the 2020–2021 academic year by reshaping his research agenda. Over the past five years, he has pursued a project aimed at building an end-to-end toolchain to ease the deployment of secure, decentralised smart-city services, from IoT sensor data acquisition through to its exploitation via distributed AI models. This work draws on the interplay between modelling, optimisation, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity to address interoperability and performance requirements in highly heterogeneous urban environments.