International Conference on Smart Systems and Data science 2021 : ICSSD’21

Prof. Mehdi Bennis is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland, an Academy of Finland Research Fellow and head of the intelligent connectivity and networks/systems group (ICON). His main research interests are in radio resource management, heterogeneous networks, game theory and machine learning in 5G networks and beyond. He has co-authored one book and published more than 200 research papers in international conferences, journals and book chapters. He has been the recipient of several prestigious awards including the 2015 Fred W. Ellersick Prize from the IEEE Communications Society, the 2016 Best Tutorial Prize from the IEEE Communications Society, the 2017 EURASIP Best paper Award for the Journal of Wireless Communications and Networks, the all-University of Oulu award for research and the 2019 Dr Bennis received the IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Committee Early Achievement Award. Dr Bennis is an IEEE Fellow.

Title: Communication-efficient and distributed ML over wireless networks

Prof. Vincenzo Piuri has received his Ph.D. in computer engineering at Polytechnic of Milan, Italy (1989). He is Full Professor in computer engineering at the University of Milan, Italy (since 2000). He has been Associate Professor at Polytechnic of Milan, Italy and Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and visiting researcher at George Mason University, USA. His main research interests are: artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, intelligent systems, machine learning, pattern analysis and recognition, signal and image processing, biometrics, intelligent measurement systems, industrial applications, digital processing architectures, fault tolerance, cloud computing infrastructures, and internet-of-things. Original results have been published in 400+ papers in international journals, proceedings of international conferences, books, and book chapters. He is Fellow of the IEEE, Distinguished Scientist of ACM, and Senior Member of INNS. He is President of the IEEE Systems Council (2020-21) and IEEE Region 8 Director-elect (2021-22), and has been IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities (2015), IEEE Director, President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Vice President for Education of the IEEE Biometrics Council, Vice President for Publications of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the IEEE Systems Council, and Vice President for Membership of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Systems Journal (2013-19). He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers, the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, and IEEE Access. He received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award (2002) and the IEEE TAB Hall of Honor (2019). He is Honorary Professor at: Obuda University, Hungary; Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China; Northeastern University, China; Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan; Amity University, India; and Galgotias University, India.

Title: Ambient intelligence for Smart Living (Get Abstract: Click Here)

Prof. Ali Idri is a Full Professor at the Computer Science and Systems Analysis School (ENSIAS, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco). He is also an Associate Professor and Affiliate Professor at the Ecole de Technologie Supérieure (Montreal, Canada) and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (Ben Guerir, Morocco) respectively. He received his Master and Doctorate of 3rd Cycle in Computer Science from the Mohammed V University in 1994 and 1997 respectively. He received his Ph.D in Computer and Cognitive Sciences from the University of Quebec at Montreal in 2003. He is the head of the Software Project Management Research Team since 2010. He was the principal investigator of several leading national and international projects. He was ranked at the 3rd position of the Top-Ten researchers in the field of software effort estimation according to the study "Research Patterns and Trends in Software Effort Estimation (Information and Software Technology 91 (2017) 1–21). He was ranked 2nd of the Top-Ten researchers in doing Systematic Mapping Studies in Software Engineering according to the study “Landscaping systematic mapping studies in software engineering: A tertiary study”. He was recently ranked amongst the top 2% researchers around the world in all scientific fields according to the study performed by Stanford University. (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918). He is an Associate Editor of BMC Medical Informatics and Decision. He is an Editor of the Scientific African Journal. He is an Expert Evaluator of the CNRST (http://www.cnrst.ma/index.php/fr/). He is representing The standard methodology for sizing software : COSMIC in Morocco- (cosmic-sizing.org/organization/local/morocco). He is very active in the fields of medical informatics, software engineering, and machine learning, and has published more than 210 papers in well recognized journals and conferences.

Title: Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering in e-health

Dr. Kaoutar El-Maghraoui is a principal research staff member at the IBM T.J Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. She is a member of the AI engineering research team at IBM Research AI where she is working on research at the intersection of Systems and Artificial Intelligence. She leads the end-user AI testbed of the IBM Research AI Hardware Center, a global research hub focusing on enabling next-generation chips and systems for AI workloads. In her prior roles, she has conducted research on several aspects of the AIX operating system such as performance, multi-thread and multi-core scheduling, Flash SSD storage, OS crash diagnosis and recovery, interactions with systems architecture, and applying machine learning techniques for OS problem diagnosis and prediction. Kaoutar has co-authored several conference and journal publications in the areas of systems research, distributed systems and high performance computing. Kaoutar obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science in 2007 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York and a Masters degree in Computer Networks in 2001 from Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco. She was a lecturer of Computer Science in the School of Science and Engineering at Al Akhawayn University in 2001 and 2002. Kaoutar has received several fellowships and awards including the American Association of University Women fellowship, the Robert McNaughton Award for best thesis in computer science at RPI, IBM’s Eminence and Excellence award for leadership in increasing Women’s presence in science and technology, and IBM’s Tier II award for contributions to the foundational POWER software technologies and promoting these systems in Africa. She is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, Society of Women Engineers, and the ACM. Kaoutar is very passionate about mentoring and promoting the participation of women in STEM fields. She is chair of the Arab Women in Computing (ArabWIC) Anita Borg Institute Systers’ community.