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Pierre Dersin, PhD, earned a master’s in operations research and a PhD in elec-
trical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also
holds math and electrical engineering degrees from the Université Libre de
Bruxelles (Belgium).
Since 2019, he has been Adjunct Professor at Luleå University of Technology
(Sweden) in the Operations and Maintenance Engineering Division.
In January 2022, he founded a small consulting company, Eumetry sas, in
Louveciennes, France, in the elds of RAMS, PHM, and AI, just after retiring
from ALSTOM, where he had spent more than 30 years.
With Alstom, he was RAM (reliability- availability- maintainability) Director
from 2007 to 2021 and founded the RAM Center of Excellence. In 2015, he launched the predictive maintenance activity and became PHM (prognostics and health management) Director of ALSTOM Digital Mobility and then ALSTOM
Digital and Integrated Systems, St- Ouen, France.
Prior to joining Alstom, he worked in the United States on the reliability of large
electric power networks, as part of the Large Scale System Effectiveness Analysis Program sponsored by the US Department of Energy, from MIT and Systems Control Inc., and later, with FABRICOM (Suez Group), on fault detection and diagnostics in industrial systems.
He has contributed a number of communications and publications in scien-
tic conferences and journals in the elds of RAMS, PHM, AI, automatic con-
trol and electric power systems, including Engineering Applications of AI, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and
Systems, ESREL, RAMS Symposia, French Lambda- Mu Symposia, the 2012
IEEE- PHM -
note speaker), and WSC 2013.
He serves on the IEEE Reliability Society AdCom and the IEEE Digital Reality
Initiative, and chairs the IEEE Reliability Society Technical Committee on Systems of Systems. He is a contributor of four chapters in the Handbook of RAMS in
Railways: Theory and Practice (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, 2018), including a chapter on “PHM in Railways”. In January 2020, he was awarded the Alan O. Plait Award for the best tutorial at the RAMS conference, “Designing for Availability in Systems, and Systems of Systems”.
His main research interests focus on the conuence between RAMS and PHM
as well as complex systems resilience and asset management.
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