Mostafa Hefnawi, Ph.D., P. Eng.

Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Mostafa Hefnawi received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Laval University, Quebec, in 1998. In 1999, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at RMC (Royal Military University of Canada), Kingston, ON, where he is currently a Full Professor. From 2015 to 2020, he was the Chair and the Associate Head of the ECE department at RMC. His research interests include MIMO radar, massive MIMO, hybrid beamforming, multi-user MIMO, and software-defined Radio (SDR). He is the founder and the leader of the SDR Section of the Communication Research Laboratory at RMC, which provides state-of-the-art SDR platforms. He is a contributing author of several refereed journals, books, book chapters, and proceeding papers related to the new generations of wireless communication systems.

Rezzy Eko Caraka,PhD

SRF, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) Visiting Professor, Big Data Convergence Pukyong National University (PKNU)

Rachid Saadane,PhD

Rachid Saadane received the B.S. (2001), M.S. (2003) from the Mohamed V Univ. and Ph.D. (2007) from the Univ. of Mohamed V jointly with Eurecom Institute. He is currently a full professor with the department of electrical engineering in the Hassania School of Public Works (EHTP). From Marsh 2003 through July 2006, he had worked for Eurecom Institute, France, where he developed a framework for UWB channel characterization and modeling as a research engineer. His research interests are Wireless Communications System (6G, 5G, Reflective Intelligent Surface, Massive MIMO, SC-FDMA, OFDM, Dynamic Spectrum Detection and Radio Cognitive), Big Data, System Recommenders, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Signal Processing, Image Processing for smart healthcare, Estimation Theory, Smart City and Smart Agriculture Applications, Smart Farming. He has also worked on reliability for UWB Communication Systems. Currently he is the Deputy Director in charge of research, cooperation and partnership at the EHTP.

Mohamed Rahouti,PhD

Mohamed Rahouti received a M.S. degree in Mathematics, with a focus on Statistics, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, both from the University of South Florida, FL, USA, in 2016 and 2020, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Fordham University in New York City, NY, USA. His research interest focuses on blockchain technology, computer networking, machine learning, and network security with applications to smart cities. Dr. Rahouti has authored/co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed journals/conference papers and is a member of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies.

Hamid ALLAOUI,PhD

After graduating with an engineering degree in maintenance engineering in 2000, he joined ST-MicroElectronics company as a manufacturing engineer. He received a PhD in Computer Science in 2004. Since 2017, he is the director of the computer and automation engineering laboratory of Artois (LGI2A). His current research covers design, management and optimization of sustainable supply chains especially scheduling and planning of operations. He has published in several international journals and has been involved in several research and industrial projects.

Nordine Quadar

Nordine completed his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on Edge AI, Internet of Things, Cybersecurity, Embedded Systems, and Wireless Communication. In conjunction with his academic activities, Nordine is a professional engineer with over 10 years of experience in electrical engineering.

Pr. Oussama BARAKAT

Oussama Barakat has been a Professor-researcher at the University de Franche-Comte since 1992, where he has assumed a number of academic and scientific responsibilities. He has been Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Vice President of the University, 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 the field of artificial intelligence applied to healthcare (Envergure, Interreg France-Switzerland, etc.).