• Bioinformatics & Biostatistics
• Bioinformatics Environments: R, Bioconductor, and Matlab.
• Statistical & Mathematical Environments: Matlab, R, Matematica, and Scilab.
• Exome and Whole-Genome sequencing data analysis
• Microarray and RNA-Seq gene expression analysis: Preprocessing and analysis of gene expression from different technologies (Affymetrix,Illumina, Agilent, RNG-MRC two colour arrays). R packages for RNA-Seq data analysis
• Micro RNA (miRNAs) data analysis: Pre-processing and analysis of Agilent miRNAs data, joint analysis of miRNAs and mRNAs.
• Genome-wide association studies (GWAS): Preprocessing and analysis of Affymetrix and Illumina GWAS data (PLINK, R packages for GWAS analysis, visualization and annotation of SNP data).
• Systems Genetics: Network gene co-expression analysis (method: WGCNA).
• Methods: Gene-Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA), SNP-Set Enrichment Analysis (SSEA), Pathway-based approaches.
• Life-Science Database and Standards for high-throughput genomics data: Life-sciences databases, Microarray databases, next-generation sequencing databases, and standards. Extensive experience with database design and development.
• Software: Dchip, Genomatix, BRB ArrayTools, Partek Genomics Suite, Ingenuity System, TIGR software, Affymetrix software and tools, Illumina software.


• eHealth and Digital Technologies
• Big Data & Open Data
• Cloud Computing
• Amazon web services (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2, ROnCloud, EBI R Cloud Workbench).
• Cloudwatt and Open Stack.
• Analysis of social media
• Blockchain in health
• Mobile app development


• Biology, Genetics, and Epidemiology
• Biology: Molecular Biology, biology of human monocytes and macrophages, molecular mechanisms of atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction.
• Genetics: Human genetics, basics in mouse genetics.
• Epidemiology: Epidemiology and mathematical modeling of infectiouse diseases.
• History of Genetics : My Web page dedicated to history of genetics.


• Medicine
• Cardiology: Atherosclerotic diseases
• Radiology: Medical imaging
• Healthcare management: hospitals information systems and management of clinical data.


• Medical Informatics

Medical ontologies, management of medical data, information systems in healthcare, healthcare standards (HL7, DICOM, IHE).

Medical imaging: Processing and analysis of medical imaging, compression of medical images.
Tools and environments: Image J, Matlab, Wavelet compression, R packages of image processing.

• Informatics, Electronics, and Telecommunication

Advanced operating systems, software engineering, distributed systems, databases, Artificial Intelligence, OSI and TCP/IP protocols, ATM networks, mobile communications (UMTS GPRS, GSM), Wireless-networks, Ethernet networks, Intranet, Mobile IP, networks security, microprocessor architecture and electronic circuits.

• Data Mining & machine learning

Clementine, Weka, and R packages for machine learning

• Text Mining and BioNLP

Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine (BioNLP)

• Modeling and project management

Modeling and project management: UML modeling, Merise, MCP, PERT, and GANTT.

• Programming Languages

C, C++, R, Smalltalk, Java, J++, ADA, Visual Cafe, Visual Basic, Visual Fox Pro, Pascal, Fortran, Delphi, Ruby, Python, Perl, PLSQL, Java Script, ASP, PHP, VB script, HTML, XHTML, and XML.

• Web development skills

Website developement,Wordpress

• Web (HTTP) server and web development

Apache HTTP Server, Tomcat, and Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Server

• Fluent in French, Arabic (Classical, Modern Standard Arabic, and three regional varieties), and Berber (a national language in Algeria)
• English : Very advanced level
• German : B2 level (currently learning German and preparing the TestDaf)
• Italian : Basics

Websites to improve my language skills:

German

• http://deutschkurse.dw.de
• http://www.goethe.de/z/jetzt/deindex.htm
• http://www.hueber.de/
• http://www.deutsch-uni.com
• http://www.cornelsen.de/home/
• http://www.ids-mannheim.de/
• http://www.daad.de
• http://www.dutchgrammar.com/
• http://www.deutsch-lernen.com/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/
• http://webgerman.com/germlinks/

English

• http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
• http://www.english-at-home.com

Italian

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/italian
• http://www.oneworlditaliano.com

French

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french
• http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/enseigner-apprendre-francais/accueil_apprendre.php

• Management of pluridisciplinary projects

I have managed multidisciplinary genomics projects, including transcriptomics projects and the large-scale genetics of gene expression Cardiogenics project.

• Entrepreneurship, company creation and management skills
• Proposal / grant writing skills

I have written and submitted the following proposals: EMIGWAS: submitted for the joint call between the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Science and Technology Development Fund of Egypt (STDF) AMIGWAS: submitted to the National Agency for the Development of Research. Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Algeria (PNR health 2010).IPA´SSB 2012: Proposal for an annual international summer school of bioinformatics in Algiers.

• Patent writing

I have been trained on patents search, writing, and submission.

• Event sponsorship writing skills