Bechir Zalila

Currently, I am an associate professor at the National School of Engineers of Sfax and member of the ReDCAD research laboratory. I did my engineering and graduate studies at Telecom ParisTech. From October 2005 to November 2008, I was a member of the S3 research team in the Network and Computer Science department of Telecom ParisTech.

My Academic Habilitation is titled The Architectural Modeling in the Service of Real time, Distributed and Embedded Systems — Contributions to Dynamic Reconfiguration, Fault Tolerance, Optimization and Formal Verification, defended on May 28th, 2022.

My PhD thesis is titled Configuration and Deployment of Distributed Real-time Embedded Systems using an Architecture Description Language. My supervisors were Laurent Pautet and Jérôme Hugues. I defended my thesis in November 2008.

Curriculum vitae

Video channels

YouTube @BechirZalila — Educational videos and tutorials
asciinema ~bechir — Recorded terminal sessions

Recent publications

2026
A Comparative Study of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches for Arabic Sign Language Recognition
Information and Software Technology Scopus Q1 SJR Q1 IF 4.6
2026
A Real-Time Sign Language Recognition System Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Computer Vision
2026 IEEE/ACIS 24th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA) CORE C
2025
Design and Development of an Autonomous Mobile Robot for Unstructured Indoor Environments
Machines Scopus Q2 SJR Q2 IF 2.5
2024
A Framework for the Automatic Conversion of Text Into Sign Language
Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2024 Workshops CORE A
2023
A Smart Trap for Counting Olive Moths Based on the Internet of Things and Deep Learning
2022 IEEE/ACS 19th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) CORE C

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