El Mostafa Kalmoun

El Mostafa Kalmoun is Associate Professor of Mathematics in the School of Science and Engineering at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, which he joined in 2021. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (Optimization) in 2001 and his Habilitation in 2007, both from Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco. His career spans more than 25 years in Morocco, Japan, Germany, Spain, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, with short research visits across Europe, Asia and Africa. His research centers on bilevel and multiobjective optimization, variational analysis and computer vision. His current work focuses on bilevel learning of regularization parameters for optical flow.

He has more than 75 publications, including more than 40 Scopus-indexed journal papers since 2020. He has served as keynote speaker at 10 international conferences over the last five years. His projects have been funded by the German Research Foundation, The World Academy of Sciences, the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and the Malaysian Fundamental Research Grant Scheme, etc. He teaches linear algebra and discrete mathematics.