Prof. Tarek Bouktir was born in Ras El-Oued, Algeria in 1971. He received the B.S degree in Electrical Engineering Power system from Setif University (Algeria) in 1994, his MSc degree from Annaba University in 1998, his PhD degree in power system from Batna University (Algeria) in 2003. His areas of interest are the application of the meta-heuristic methods in optimal power flow, FACTS control and improvement in electric power systems, Multi-Objective Optimization for power systems, and Voltage Stability and Security Analysis. He is the Editor-In-Chief of Journal of Electrical Systems (Algeria), the Managing Editor of Journal of Automation & Systems Engineering (Algeria). He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journals: Leonardo Electronic Journal of Practices (Romania) and Technologies, Leonardo Journal of Sciences (Romania), and WSEAS Transactions on Power Systems (Greece) . He serves as reviewer with the Journals: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (USA), Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE (JZUS), China. He is with the Department of Electrical Engineering in Larbi Ben M’hidi University (Oum El-Bouaghi), ALGERIA.

Dr. Tarek Bouktir, Larbi Ben M'Hidi University, Dept. Electrical Engineering,
Oum El-Bouaghi, Algeria,
Phone: +213-773-336769,
Email: tarek.bouktir@esrgroups.org