Réseaux de Communication, Architectures et Multimédia

 

Youcef BENTOUTOU  ((يوسف بن توتو

Research Director

Satellite Development Centre (CDS)

Bir El Djir, Oran, Algeria

Contact details:

Département de recherche en mécanique spatiale,

Centre de développement des satellites,

 

POS 50 ILOT T12,

Bir El Djir, Oran, Algérie

 

Phone: +213 41 62 03 23

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ResearchInterests

  • Signal and image processing
  • Remote sensing
  • Pattern recognition
  • Satellite data handling
  • Fault tolerant computing
  • Space radiation effects

Short Biography

Youcef Bentoutou is currently a research director (“Directeur de recherche”) in the Satellite Development Centre of the Algerian Space Agency in Oran, Algeria.

He received his Engineer, Magister, and Doctorate degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sidi Bel Abbes (Algeria) in 1997, 2000, and 2004 respectively.

Since March 2002, he has been working as a research team leader at the Center for Space Techniques (Centre des techniques spatiales) in Arzew, Algeria. He is also a senior researcher in the “Communication Networks, Architecture, and Multimedia” laboratory at the University of Sidi Bel Abbes (Algeria). From November 2000 to March 2002, Dr. Bentoutou has been in training towards the development of the first Algerian microsatellite Alsat-1 at Surrey Space Centre (SSC), University of Surrey (United Kingdom). He received the 2009 TWAS-AAS-Microsoft award for young scientists for his contributions to the fields of Pattern Recognition and Information Processing. In the beginning of 2011, he became Research Director of system architecture and signal processing at the Center for Space Techniques. Since the beginning of 2013, he joined the Center for Satellite Development (CDS: Centre de développement des Satellites) in Oran.

As a part of the “Communication Networks, Architecture, and Multimedia” Laboratory

-        He is now supervising 4 PhD students.

-        His principal research interests are in the fields of digital signal and image processing, image analysis, satellite image applications, and satellite on-board data processing.

-        He was a member of a national project (PNR ref: 15/u22/1408) entitled "Algorithms development for advanced data processing on-board Earth observation satellites".