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CCNC Conference in 2016 and 2017, and General Chair of DS-RT 2021, ICCCN 2020, INSERT-IoT 2019, Goodtechs 2017, ICCNA 2017, and DroNet 2018, among others. He is currently an associate editor of several scientific journals including: Elsevier Vehicular Networks, MDPI Sensors, Mobile Information Systems, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, MDPI Electronics, IET Smart Cities, IET Networks, MDPI Drones, etc. He is ranked among the World's Top 2% Scientists, and also among the top 100 Spanish researchers in the Computer Science & Electronics field. He is a founding member of the IEEE SIG on Big Data with Computational Intelligence and the IEEE SIG on Green Internet of Vehicles. To date he has published about 460 papers in journals, books and conferences, including 120 articles in international journals with JCR impact index (70 in Q1), and 213 articles in international conferences (mainly IEEE, ACM and IFIP), 50 of them classified as CORE A/GRIN class 2.

Abderrahmane Lakas is a Professor in the department of Computer and Network Engineering, UAE University. He received his PhD and MSc in Computer Systems from the University of Paris 6 (Pierre et Marie Currie), France respectively in 1996, and 1991. Prior to joining UAE University in 2003, he worked in the industry in various companies such as Nortel Networks (Canada, 1998), Newbridge Networks (Canada, 1997) and start-up company Netrake Corp. (US, Dallas, 2000), serving in various technical and managerial positions. Dr Lakas completed his post-doc at the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, in Lancaster University, UK (1994-1996) before joining the School of IT and Engineering, University of Ottawa (1996-1997) as a Research Associate, working on various aspects of software engineering for telecommunication systems. At UAE University, Dr Lakas is the head of the CAST (Connected and Autonomous Systems) research team in the CIT and in charge of the CIT's ASIL (Autonomous and IoT Lab). He has published more than a 100 journal and conference papers on various research topics focusing on wireless networks, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET), intelligent transportation systems (ITS), Internet of Things (IoT), pervasive computing, QoS, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), network security and intrusion detection specifically in mobile ad hoc environments. Dr Lakas is an associate editor in the IEEE Access journal, IET Networks, reviewer for the following journals: IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, EEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Access, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Computer Communications, International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Ad Hoc Networks, Vehicular Communications, Computers and Electrical Engineering, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, International Journal of Communication Systems, Enterprise Information Systems. He is member of the technical program committee of several conferences. He has been publishing his research in renown journals and conferences such as IEEE VTC, IEEE CC, IEEE Globcom, IEEE WCNC. Dr Lakas participated to the organization of several scientific events namely he chaired the IEEE IIT'2006 and IIT'2012, chaired a workshop in the Drones Middle East for Government and Public Services, Dubai (2016), co-chaired workshop on artificial intelligence for sustainable B5G/6G networks. Dr Lakas is a recipient of many academic and industrial awards including Faculty Excellence Award in Service, UAE Univ. (2008), Achievement Award, Nortel (1999), Achievement Award, Newbridge (1998).







Mohamed Lahby is Associate Professor at the Higher Normal School (ENS) University Hassan II of Casablanca, Morocco. His PhD in Computer Science from Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Mohammedia, University Hassan II of Casablanca, in 2013. His research interests are wireless communication and network, mobility management, QoS/QoE, Internet of things, Smart cities, Optimization and Machine learning. He has published more than 35 papers (book chapters, international journals, and conferences), 1 edited book, and 1 authored book. He has served and continues to serve on executive and technical program committees of numerous international conferences such as IEEE PIMRC, ICC, NTMS, IWCMC, WINCOM, ISNCC. He also serves as a referee of many prestigious Elsevier journals : Ad Hoc Networks, Applied Computing and Informatics and International journal of disaster risk reduction. He organized and participated more than 40 conferences and workshops. He is the chair of many international workshops and special sessions such as MLNGSN'19, CSPSC'19, MLNGSN'20, MLNGSN'21, AI2SC '20 and WCTCP'20, CIOT'22.