Dr. Brahim MEZERDI earned his PhD from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, in 1986, and subsequently obtained his State Doctorate from Constantine University in 1996, under the guidance of Professor Nicole El Karoui. Following his doctoral studies, he held a research assistant position at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, from 1986 to 1987.In 1987, he joined Biskra University, progressing to the rank of full Professor in 2002. Since 2019,  he has been a Visiting Faculty member at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in KSA. Dr. MEZERDI's scholarly achievements have been recognized through prestigious awards, including the Maurice Audin Prize of Mathematics in 2005. His primary research interests lie in the areas of forward and backward stochastic differential equations, their optimal control, and mean-field optimal control. His key contributions are made on the stochastic maximum principle, relaxed control problems and McKean-Vlasov equations. In 2015, Dr. MEZERDI was selected, by an international committee, as a founding member of the Algerian Academy of Science and Technology. Furthermore, he served also as vice president of the Algerian Mathematical Society from 2009 to 2012.