Oussama Barakat has been a professor-researcher at the University of Franche-Comte since 1992, where he has held a number of academic and scientific responsibilities, including Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Vice President of the University, and project manager for PRES Bourgogne Franche-Comte. His research interests include industrial engineering and hospital engineering. He has developed several approaches to knowledge modeling and decision support in healthcare systems: decision support for optimizing care pathways, routing caregivers for home hospitalization, modeling and optimization of operating theatres, and regulation of hospital emergencies. He has been responsible for several research projects in artificial intelligence applied to healthcare (Envergure, Interreg France-Switzerland, etc.).