CIoT 2023 Invited Speakers
Speaker #1
Title: Smart system for Forecasting the Crops adaptation to the risks of climate change for a sustainable development of the agricultural sector.
Mostafa Ezziyyani
(Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Morocco)
Bio: Mostafa Ezziyyani, Received the Bachelor’s degree in computer science in 1994, the “Graduate Diploma in Computer Science” degree in 1996 and the first PhD degree in “Information System Engineering from Mahmmeed V University in Rabat, Morocco. He received the second PhD degree in 2006, From Abdelmalek Essaadi University” in Distributed Systems and Data Technologies. In 2008 he received a Researcher Professor Ability Degree and since 2017 he holds the position of full professor at Computer Science Department.
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He is member Mathematics and Applications laboratory (MAL) and responsible of the research direction Data Science and Digital Transformation, he formed a research team that works around this theme and more particularly in the area of integration of heterogeneous systems, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and decision support systems and new technology for communication.
His research activities focus on the modeling databases and integration of heterogeneous and distributed systems (with the various developments to the big data, data sciences, data analytics, system decision support, knowledge management, object DB, active DB, multi-system agents, distributed systems and mediation). This research is at the crossroads of databases, artificial intelligence, software engineering and programming.
He is president of International Scientific Council of Logistics and Transport (CELT) and of College of Engineering (CoE) and president of Arabic African Foundation on Science and Technology Transfer (A2S2T Foundation). He received the first WSIS prize 2018 for the Category C7: ICT applications: AQ1 E-environment, First prize: MtG—ICC in the regional contest IEEE – London UK Project: “World Talk”, The qualification to the final (Teachers-Researchers Category): Business Plan Challenger 2015, EVARECH UAE Morocco. Project: «Integrated Sink with Smart Circuit Faucet for water conservation», First prize: Intel Business, Challenge Middle East and North Africa—IBC-MENA. Project: «Intelligent Preventive System for the Control and Monitoring in Real Time of Medicinal Plants in the Process of Growth (PCS: Plants Control System)», Best Paper: International Conference on Software Engineering and New Technologies. Paper: «Disaster Emergency System Application Case Study: Flood Disaster».
He has authored three patents: (1) device and learning process of orchestra conducting (e-Orchestra), (2) built-in washbasin with intelligent circuit tap for water preservation. (LIRCI) (3) Device and method for assisting the driving of vehicles for individuals with hearing loss. He is the editor and coordinator of several projects with Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and others as international project; he has been involved in several collaborative research projects in the context of ERANETMED3/PRIMA/H2020/FP7 framework program including project management activities in the topic modelling of distributed information systems reseed to environment, Health, energy and agriculture. The first project aims to propose an adaptive system for flood evacuation. This system gives the best decisions to be taken in this emergency situation to minimize damages. The second project aims to develop a research dynamic process of the itinerary in an events graph for blind and partially signet users. Moreover, he has been the principal investigator and the project manager for several research projects dealing with several topics concerned with his research interests mentioned above.
He was an invited professor for several countries in the world (USA, UK, France, Spain Belgium, Holland, Romania, China, Algeria, Sudan, Djibouti, Egypt, and Tunisia). He is member of USA-J1 program for TCI Morocco Delegation in 2007. He creates strong collaborations with research centers in databases and telecommunications for students’ exchange: LIP6, Valencia, Poitier, Boston, Houston, China.
He is the author of more than 150 papers which appeared in refereed specialized journals and symposia. He was also the editor of the book “New Trends in Biomedical Engineering”, AEU Publications, 2004. He was a member of the Organizing and the Scientific Committees of several symposia and conferences dealing with topics related to computer sciences, distributed databases and web technology. He has been actively involved in the research community by serving as reviewer for technical, and as an organizer/co-organizer of numerous international and national conferences and workshops. In addition, he served as a program committee member for international conferences and workshops.
He is also the founder and the current chair of the blinds and partially signets people association. His activity interests focus mainly on the software to help the blinds and partially signet people to use the ICT, specifically in Arabic countries. He is the founder of the private centre of training and education in advanced technologies AC-ETAT, in Tangier since 2000.
Speaker #2
Title: The Intelligent Rooftop Greenhouse as IoT subject
Marius M. Balas
(Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania)
Bio: Marius M. Balas, IEEE Senior Member, is a Habilitated Professor at The Engineering Faculty of Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. His research topics are in Systems Engineering, Electronic Circuits, Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Adaptive Control, Modeling and Simulation. He is the author of 16 books and book chapters, 120 indexed papers and 7 invention patents.Read More
His main scientific contributions are the fuzzy-interpolative systems, the passive greenhouses, the intelligent rooftop greenhouses, the constant time to collision traffic optimization, the imposed distance braking, PWM inverter for railway coaches in tropical environments, the rejection of the switching controllers’ instability by phase trajectory analysis, the Fermat neuron, etc.
Keynote speaker in several international conferences, member of numerous scientific and editorial boards, coordinator for research projects and student competitions, co-organizer of the Control Engineering and Industrial Software Branch of the Engineering Faculty of Aurel Vlaicu University.
Speaker #3
Title: Green Solutions for SmartCities: Brief Experience and Challenges for the Future
Carla Sofia Grilo de Oliveira
(Polytechnique Institute of Portalegre, Portugal)
Bio: Carla Oliveira (IEEE S’07, D’13,) was born in Portugal, on May 1979. She received the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST (University of Lisbon) in 2013. She is now leading the delivery of Smart Cities solutions for Kyntech Services, and coordinating the Kyntech Innovation Centre at Portalegre. She is also an invited Professor at Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre. During almost 15 years, she acted as senior researcher at INOV-INESC Inovação, a R&D institution in the field of telecommunications, focusing her work on wireless communications, in the area of antennas and propagation. Read More
She has worked with the technical team of the FAQtos Project, a Portuguese risk communication program on electromagnetic-field monitoring in mobile communications. She has also actively participated in the European Research Actions COSTIC1004, C0ST2100, COST BM0704, COST281 and in the LEXNET and NEWCOM projects. She has authored and co-authored several papers in national and international journals and conferences, as well as book chapters.
Speaker #4
Title: UAV-based Scenario Builder and Physical Testing platform for Autonomous Vehicles
Dário Pedro
(Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Bio: Dário Pedro Concluded his MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from FCT/UNL with high merits in 2017, and in 2018. Furthermore, he obtained the PhD the same faculty, focusing on dynamic collision avoidance using Deep Neural Networks. His work is focused on Autonomous Vehicles and Machine Learning, with a high degree of intelligence that is able to adapt to the most unexpected scenarios, having multiple published journals papers. Read More
This work has been applied to several H2020 and P2020 research projects in the past years. Since 2018 he has been a driven force of Beyond Vision innovations and currently is the company’s CEO. In 2021 his PhD won the AIIA Award, being considered the most entrepreneurship and technological work that contributes to the development and competitiveness of the market.
