Keynote Speakers

Christian Masson is a professor at the mechanical engineering department of the École de technologie supérieure. He is the director of the Research Laboratory on the Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines in Nordic Environment. He holds a Ph.D. diploma from McGill University and Master and Bachelor diplomas in mechanical engineering from École Polytechnique de Montréal. He is an administrator of the TechnoCentre Éolien Gaspésie les îles and has written more than 100 scientific papers published in archive journals and presented at international conferences.

Prof. Dr. Saad Mekhilef is an IET Fellow and IEEE senior member. He is the associate editor of IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics and Journal of Power Electronics. He is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya since June 1999. He has been the Head of Department of Electrical Engineering, the Deputy Dean of Postgraduate studies and the Acting Dean for the faculty of Engineering. He is currently the Director of Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Research Laboratory-PEARL- He is the author and coauthor of more than 300 publications in international journals and proceedings (184 ISI journal papers) and 5 books with more than 12000 citations and 55 H-index, 114 Ph.D. and master students have graduated under his supervision. He has 6 patents. He frequently invited to give keynote lectures at international conferences. Prof. Saad is one of the top researchers in Energy filed in the world according to Scopus and web of science. He is actively involved in industrial consultancy for major corporations in the power electronics projects. His research interests include power conversion techniques, control of power converters, renewable energy, and energy efficiency.


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  • About the Conference
    Wind energy is one of the most competitive renewable energies. As a result, global installed capacity is constantly evolving and reached more than 510 GW in June 2017. In Algeria, at the present time, there is only one wind farm with 10 MW of installed capacity. However, in the Renewable Energy (...)
  • Important Dates (Extended dates)
    Full Paper Submission: 15 July 2018 Acceptance notification: 15 August 2018 Camera-ready submission: 30 September 2018 Registration: 30 September 2018
  • Topics of Interest
    Topics of interest for submission include: T1-Wind resource assessment and wind farm performance. T2-Wind power integration into grid and smart grids. T3-Wind energy forecasting. T4-Energy Storage Technologies. T5-Wind turbine aerodynamics and technology developments. T6-Hybrid (...)
  • Paper Submission
    Authors should submit their paper in English formatted according to IEEE template (available on the conference website) and limited to six (06) pages. All papers must be submitted via the Easychair electronic submission system available here: In case of difficulties when using the Easychair (...)
  • Venue & Travel
    The Renewable Energy Development Center has just set the venue for the conference "International Conference on Wind Energy and Applications in Algeria" which will take place on November 6 and 7, 2018. It is the National Library of El Hamma, Algiers that will host this great international (...)
  • Steering Committee
    Ouahiba Guerri Kamel Abdeladim Yahia Bakelli Mohammed Bouchelouh Sidi Mohammed Boudia Hafida Daaou Nedjari Said Diaf Abdelhamid Kaabeche Sabéha Kheder Haddouche Saida Makhloufi Kheira Nouacer Djohra Saheb Koussa
  • Scientific Committee
    Scientific Committee Honorary General Chair Prof. Noureddine Yassaa, Director of CDER, Algeria General Chair: Dr. Ouahiba Guerri, CDER, Algeria Members: Mr. Kamel Abdeladim, CDER, Algeria Dr. Khaled Ameur, NRCAN-RNCAN, Res. Nat. Canada Prof. Sandrine Aubrun, Centrale Nantes, France (...)
  • Registration Fees
    IEEE Member Non-member IEE National researcher and academic participants 10 000 DA 12 000 DA National students 5 000 DA 6 000 DA National industrial participants 15 000 DA 18 000 DA Maghreb participants 200 Euros 200 Euros Maghreb students 150 (...)