Professional Affiliations

• Senior Member, IEEE
• Member, Professional Engineers Quebec (OiQ), Canada.
• Member, IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc).
• Member, IEEE Kingston Section (Region 7).
• Member, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS).
• Member, IEEE Photonics Society.

Activities

• NSERC Discovery Grant Evaluation Group Member, co-chair, 1510 – Electrical and Computer Engineering (Competition 2023-2025).
• Reviewer, Canada Research Chairs II (2022).
• Member of the IEEE Public Safety Technology (PST) Initiative.
• Co-chair, Public Safety Technology (PST) Initiative Transportation Committee
• Member of the Public Safety Broadband Network (PSBN) Innovation Alliance.
• Associated Member, GERAD, Group for Research in Decision Analysis, HEC Montréal. 
• Codirector at the INQ’s (Institut Nordique du Québec) research priorities (Priority 4 – Infrastructures and Technology). Term ended.
• Member of the board of directors of Quebec Strategic Microsystems Group (ReSMiQ). Term ended.
• Member of FRQNT Strategic Cluster Centre for Systems, Technologies and Applications for Radiofrequency and Communications (STARACOM). Term ended.
• Member of Quebec Strategic Microsystems Group (ReSMiQ). Term ended.
• Member of International Research Centre on Atmospheric Icing and Power Network Engineering (CENGIVRE).
• Member of IEEE Backhaul/Fronthaul Networking & Communications Emerging Technologies Initiatives (ETI-BNC). Term ended.
• Member of Ottawa Artificial Intelligence Alliance (Ottawa-AI).
• Member of Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Montréal (CRIM) (translated as Montreal Computer Research Center). Term ended.
• Blog writer for the ETI-BNC on the topic of Self-Backhauling in Next Generation Wireless Cellular Networks. Term ended.
• Expert Committee Member at Canada Foundation for Innovation. Grant Reviewer for the 2020, 2021, 2022 (College-Industry Innovation Fund).
• External Reviewer for MITCAS (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024).
• Adviser for an international programming competition Health Hackathon (2022).
• Associate Editor Frontiers in Communications and Networks | IoT and Sensor Networks.
• Editorial Board of Remote Sensing Time Series Analysis (Section of Frontiers in Remote Sensing).
• Associate Editor IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IET Networks.

Conference Program Chair/ Technical Program Chairs

• Co-Chair, Special Session on Cybersecurity Issues of IoT in Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Environment (3rd Edition). In conjunction with IEEE 10th World Forum on Internet of Things, 10–13 November 2024 // Ottawa, Canada.
• Co-Chair, Track 4: IoV, IoT, M2M, Sensor Networks, and Ad-Hoc Networking, The 2024 IEEE 100th Vehicular Technology Conference VTC2024-Fall, 7-10 October 2024 in Washington DC, USA.
• Co-Chair, Symposium on AI/ML-Driven Communications in Future Networks, IEEE Future Networks World Forum, 15–17 October 2024 // Dubai, UAE.
• Co-Chair, Track 2: 5G and Future Network Applications and Services. IEEE Future Networks World Forum, 15–17 October 2024 // Dubai, UAE.
• Technical Track 2 Co-Chair (Public Safety in Transportation), IEEE World Forum on Public Safety Technology (WF-PST), the WF-PST, 14-17 May 2024 in Washington, DC (past).
• Co-Chair, Track 12: Recent Results, IEEE VTC2023-Fall. The 98th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2023-Fall, Hong Kong, 10-13 October 2023 (past).
• Conference Program Chair: 17th International Conference on Human Centred Intelligent Systems, HCIS 2024, Madeira, Portugal, 19-21 June 2024 (past).
• Conference Program Chair: 16th International Conference on Human Centred Intelligent Systems (HCIS-23). 14 – 16 June 2023, Rome, Italy (past).
• Conference Program Chair: 15th International Conference on Human Centred Intelligent Systems (HCIS-22). 20 – 22 June 2022, Rhodes, Greece (past).
• Conference Program Chair: 14th International Conference on Human Centred Intelligent Systems (HCIS-21). 14 – 16 June 2021, Virtual (past).

Industry Forum, Call for Tutorials, and Exhibits Committee 

• Tutorial Co-Chair,  IEEE World Forum on Public Safety Technology (WF-PST), the WF-PST , 14-17 May 2024 in Washington, DC (Dulles). (past).
• Tutorial Co-Chair, Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, August 6 – 9, 2024, Queens University Kingston, Canada. Organizing Committee – Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2024 (ieee.ca) (past).

Conference Publicity Chair (and Web Chair)

• 10th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks (CSoNet 2021), Nov 15-17, Montreal, Qc, Canada (past).
• 20th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference. June 19 – 22, 2022, Québec City, Canada (past).

Chair and organizer for the following IEEE workshops:

• Workshop on Sustainable and Intelligent Green Internet of Things for 6G and Beyond (6GSIoT). In conjunction with the 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 8–12 December 2024 // Cape Town, South Africa.
• 8th Workshop on Connected Intelligence for IoT and Industrial IoT Applications- C3IA. In conjunction with the 2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC-Spring, Singapore 2024 (past).
• 12th International Workshop on Cloud and Edge Computing  (CloudAM 2023). In conjunction with the 16th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2023), 4-7 December 2023 –Messina, Italy (past).
• First Workshop on Current Trends and Emerging Technologies in Public Safety and Security,  in conjunction with the IEEE Future Networks World Forum, 13-15 November 2023 // Baltimore, MD, USA (past).
• Special Session on Cybersecurity Issues of IoT in Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Environment (2nd Edition). In conjunction with the IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things, 12-17 October2023 // Aveiro,  Portugal (past).
• Workshop on Advanced Multimedia Computing for Industrial Application, in conjunction with the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia 2023), October 28 – November 3, 2023. Ottawa , ON , Canada (past).
• W3: 7th Workshop on Connected Intelligence for IoT and Industrial IoT Applications- C3IA. In conjunction with the 2023 IEEE 98th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2023-Fall, Hong Kong, 10-13 October 2023 (past).
• Recent Advances Evolving Fuzzy Systems and Applied Computational Intelligence, in conjunction with FUZZ-IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. August 13 – August 17, 2023, Songdo Incheon, Korea, FUZZ-IEEE 2023 (past).
•  W5-6th Workshop on Connected Intelligence for IoT and Industrial IoT Applications- C3IA. In conjunction with the 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2023-Spring, Florence, Italy 18-21 June 2023 (past).
• 11TH International Workshop on Cloud and Edge Computing, and Applications Management. In conjunction with the 15th IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing Conference (UCC)
  6-9 December 2022 – Portland, Oregon, USA (past).
• Real-Time Data Processing and Optimization in Industrial and IoT Applications. In conjunction with the 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 4 to 8 December 2022 (past).
• Special Session on Signal Processing and Wireless Communication Technologies in 5G and 6G” in conjunction with the International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS). ISPACS, November 22-25, 2022 in Penang, Malaysia (past).
• Special Session on IoT Special Session on Cybersecurity Issues of IoT in Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Environment. In conjunction with the IEEE 8th World Forum on Internet of Things, 26 October–11 November 2022 // Yokohama, Japan (past).
• 5th Connected Intelligence for IoT and Industrial IoT Applications (C3IA) . In conjunction with the IEEE 96th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2022-Fall, London and Beijing 26-29 September 2022 (past).
• The 1st International Workshop on Cybersecurity Issues of IoT in Ambient Intelligence environment (AmI 2022). In conjunction with The 20th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom 2022). IEEE Cyber Science and Technology 2022. Calabria, Italy, September 12-15, 2022 (past).
• 4th Connected Intelligence for IoT and Industrial IoT Applications (C3IA) . In conjunction with the 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference. VTC2022-Spring Helsinki, Finland 19 – 22 June, 2022 (past).
• Edge Computing Technologies for Mobile Computing and Internet of Things.  In conjunction with the 14th UCC 2021 : ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing,  December 7-10, 2020,  Leicester, UK (past).
• W1: 3rd Workshop on Connected Intelligence for IoT and Industrial IoT Applications- C3IA. In conjunction with the 2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference. VTC2021-Fall , online only, 27-30 September 2021 (past).
• W5: Connected Intelligence for IoT and Industrial IoT Applications (C3IA) . In conjunction with the 2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference. VTC2021-Spring , Virtually, 25-28 April 2021 (past).
• W9: Real-time data processing in Industrial and IoT Applications. This workshop was co-located with the 2020 IEEE 92nd Vehicular Technology Conference. VTC2020-Fall, 4 – 7 October 2020 (Victoria, B.C., Canada) (past).
• Applied Computational Intelligence (ACI). This workshop was co-located with the 15th IEEE International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (Sorrento, Italy, November 2019) (past).
• Data Processing in Industrial and IoT Applications. This workshop was co-located with the International Conference on Computing, Networking, and Communications, IEEE ICNC 2020, (Hawaii, USA, February, 2020) (past).

Chair and organizer for KES workshops:  

• Session Co-Chair: Big Data Analytics in Sustainable and Smart City (4^th Edition). In conjunction with the14^th International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings SEB-24 (Madeira, Portugal, September 18-20, 2024.)
• Session Co-Chair: Recent Advances in Biometric Technology (4th Edition). In conjunction with the International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, KES 2023, Seville, Spain 11-13 September 2024.
• Session Co-Chair: IS07: Global and Constrained Optimization: Algorithms and Applications (5th Edition). In conjunction with the 28th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, KES 2024, Seville, Spain, 11-13 September 2024.
• Session Co-Chair: IS02: Edge Computing Technologies for Mobile Computing and Internet of Things (4th Edition). In conjunction with KES Smart Digital Futures multi-conference, HCIS 2024, Madeira, Portugal, 19-21 June 2024. (past).
• Session Co-Chair: Big Data Analytics in Sustainable and Smart City (3^nd Edition). In conjunction with 13^th International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings SEB-23 (September 18-20, 2023, Bari, Italy) (past).
• Session Co-Chair: Recent Advances in Biometric Technology. In conjunction with the 27th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, KES 2023 (Athens; Greece, 6-8 September 2023) (past).
• Session Co-Chair: Global and Constrained Optimization: Algorithms and Applications (4th Edition). In conjunction with the 27th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, KES 2023 (Athens, Greece, 6-8 September 2023) (past).
• Session Co-Chair: Edge Computing Technologies for Mobile Computing and Internet of Things (3rd Edition). In conjunction with KES Smart Digital Futures multi-conference HCIS 2023 (Rome, Italy, 14-16 June 2023) (past).
• Session Co-Chair: IS06: Big Data Analytics in Sustainable and Smart City (2nd Edition). In conjunction with 13th International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings SEB-22 , Split, Croatia, 14-16 September 2022, (past).
• Session Co-Chair: Global and Constrained Optimization: Algorithms and Applications (3rd Edition). In conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, KES 2022 , Verona, Italy, 7-9 September 2022, (past).
• Session Co-Chair: IS42: Recent Advances in Biometric Technology (2nd Edition). In conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, KES 2022 ,Verona, Italy, 7-9 September 2022, (past).
• Session Co-Chair: Edge Computing Technologies for Mobile Computing and Internet of Things (2nd Edition). In conjunction with KES Smart Digital Futures multi-conference HCIS 2022  Rhodes, Greece, 20-22 June 2022, (past).
• Session Co-Chair: S06: Global and Constrained Optimization: Algorithms and Applications. In conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems , KES 2021, Szczecin, Poland, September 2021, (past).
• Session Co-Chair: IS16: Recent Advances in Biometric Technology. In conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems , KES 2021, Szczecin, Poland, September 2021, (past).
• Session Co-Chair: IS04: Big Data Analytics in Sustainable and Smart City. In conjunction with 13th International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings SEB-21 , Split, Croatia, September 2021, (past).
• Session Co-Chair: IS01: Edge Computing Technologies for Mobile Computing and Internet of Things. In conjunction with  KES Smart Digital Futures multi-conference HCIS 2021 , Rome, Italy, 14-16 June 2021, (past).
• Session Co-Chair: IS02: Real-time data processing in Industrial and IoT Applications. In conjunction with the Smart Digital Futures multi-conference  SDF 2020 , Split, Croatia, June 2020, (past).
• Session Co-Chair: IS21: Global and Constrained Optimization: Algorithms and Applications. In conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems , KES 2020 , Verona, Italy, September 2020, (past).

Technical Reviewer (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024):

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
• IEEE Communications Letters
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal
• IEEE Access
• Elsevier International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems.
• Elsevier Journal of Mobile Multimedia
• Elsevier Journal Computer Communications
• Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society
• Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications
• MDPI Electronics

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)

2022

• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC’22.

2021

• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC’21.

2020

• IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communication, ICNC’20
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC’20.

2019

• IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC’ 2019
• IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communication, ICNC’19
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Spring and VTC2019-Fall)
• International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC’ 2019
• IEEE, International Conference on Smart City Applications, SCA’19.
• IEEE International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems, SITIS’19.
• International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, KES’19.
• Smart Digital Futures, SDF’19.