Nahi Kandil has been a Professor with the Engineering School, University of Quebec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue since 2000. He has worked on research dealing with neural networks and their applications to wireless communications and power systems. He is now working mainly with localization and channel modeling in confined areas and mine environments.

Nassim Noura is a substitute professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). He obtained his master’s degree in France at the University of Lille in electrical engineering and his Ph.D. at UQTR also in electrical engineering around hydrogen hybrid vehicles. His research interests are focused on the energy management of hybrid systems, energy source modeling and real-time multi-objective optimization. Nassim Noura is piloting, within the RQEI, the management agreement for the structuring of research in green hydrogen and bioenergy with the Energy Squad and the Government of Quebec.