Rachid Boukhili is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He graduated in Solid State Physics from Annaba University (Algeria), completed his master degree in Material Physics at Université de Lille I (France) and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (France). He joined the Mechanical Engineering department at Ecole Polytechnique in 1986.