Mohanad Bikai is a Ph.D. student in Industrial engineering at ESTIA supervised by Christophe MERLO and Audrey ABI AKLE.  He began his research work in February 2021 and his topic is about defining user-centred design method of digital twin of hospital building to manage energy efficiency.

He obtained a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2019 in Lebanon. After, he headed to France and completed Master M2 "Integration of knowledge in mechanical production - APS" at ENSAM in 2019-20. During courses in Master M2, he worked on robotic, programming/control software and tragic path including Matlab/Simulink and Python (Keras,Numphy,etc.).