Hiba Al-Assaad

Hiba Al-Assaad serves as a Teacher-researcher at CESI Higher Education Group in Toulouse, France, specializing in Engineering and Digital Tools within the Computer Networks and Telecommunications domain. Her work bridges academic instruction in preparatory and engineering cycles with advanced research in robotics and navigation systems.

Her research focuses on multi-source sensor fusion, semantic mapping for mobile robotics, and cyber-physical systems. Key areas include developing robust navigation algorithms using digital elevation models, creating decentralized decision systems for industrial applications, and advancing federated learning frameworks. Her work consistently addresses real-world industrial challenges through collaborative robotics and smart transportation solutions.

Analysis of her recent publications reveals a strong trajectory toward industrial cyber-physical systems, with increasing emphasis on federated learning, meta-algorithms, and human-robot collaboration in manufacturing environments. Her research integrates geospatial engineering with machine learning to solve navigation and perception challenges.

She actively supervises doctoral candidates including A. Achour (defense 2024) researching real-time semantic mapping with robot swarms, and B. Guendouzi (defense 2025) developing decision support systems for industrial cyber-physical environments.

Her technical contributions span from fundamental navigation algorithms to cutting-edge machine learning applications, maintaining consistent output across journals like International Journal of Image and Data Fusion, IEEE CSR, and Journal of Network and Computer Applications.