Habib Zaidi is professor, he is head of the PET Instrumentation & Neuroimaging Laboratory at Geneva University Hospital and faculty member at the medical school of Geneva University. He is also a Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and Adjunct Professor of Medical Physics and Molecular Imaging at the University of Southern Denmark. He is actively involved in developing imaging solutions for cutting-edge interdisciplinary biomedical research and clinical diagnosis. He has been elevated to the grade of IEEE fellow and was elected liaison representative of the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) to the World Health Organization (WHO). He is developer of physics web-based instructional modules for the RSNA and Editor of IPEM’s Nuclear Medicine web-based instructional modules. His academic accomplishments in the area of quantitative PET imaging have been well recognized by his peers and by the medical imaging community at large since he is a recipient of many awards and distinctions among which the prestigious 2003 Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award given by the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee of the IEEE, the 2004 Mark Tetalman Memorial Award given by the Society of Nuclear Medicine, the 2007 Young Scientist Prize in Biological Physics given by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), the prestigious (100’000$) 2010 kuwait Prize of Applied sciences (known as the Middle Eastern Nobel Prize) given by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) for "outstanding accomplishments in Biomedical technology", the 2013 John S. Laughlin Young Scientist Award given by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the 2013 Vikram Sarabhai Oration Award given by the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India (SNMI), the 2015 Sir Godfrey Hounsfield Award given by the British Institute of Radiology (BIR), the 2017 IBA-Europhysics Prize given by the European Physical Society (EPS) and the 2019 Khwarizmi International Award given by the Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST). Prof. Zaidi has been an invited speaker of over 160 keynote lectures and talks at an International level, has authored over 265 peer-reviewed articles in prominent journals and is the editor of four textbooks..
Title of the keynote speech
Innovations in multimodality imaging in the era of precision medicine
Iyad Dayoub is professor of Communications Engineering; He has been awarded BEng
(Telecommunications & Electronics) in 1993. He received the M.A.Sc degree in Electrical Engineering
from the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL), and a PhD in 2001 from the Institute of Electronics,
Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN), Valenciennes University. He has worked as a system Engineer with Siemens
(Middle East) and as a Researcher with Alcatel Business Systems Alcatel, Colombes (Paris).His current research
activities at the IEMN are focused on Wireless Communications, High-Speed Communications, Cognitive Radio,
and Hybrid Radio- Optic Technologies. He was (2007-2014)
a member of the National Council of Universities (CNU, France) in the area of Electrical engineering,
electronics, photonics and systems, and Adjunct Professor in Concordia University, Montreal (2010-2014).
He is IEEE Senior member, and member of several International Conference Advisory Committees,
Technical Program Committees and Organization Committees such as VTC, GLOBECOM, ICC, PIMRC, WWC, etc.
Title of the keynote speech
New enabling technologies for 5G & beyond: application to ITS
Abdeldjalil Ouahabi is Professor (from 1995) and Project leader of Signal-Image at Polytech Tours,
France, where he was also Deputy Director in charge of international relations.
In 1983, Abdeldjalil OUAHABI received his Ph.D. degree in Automatic-Control and Signal
Processing, from INP Grenoble (France) and in 1992, he received the State Doctorat
(Doctorat d’état) degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from jointly INP
Grenoble (France) and USTHB (Algiers). His research interests include image and signal
processing, biomedical engineering and embedded systems. He has a strong interest in sampling
theories multiresolution algorithms, optimal filtering, spectral analysis, wavelets, and the use
of fractals for signal and image processing. Prof. Abdeldjalil Ouahabi is the author of over 170
published papers in these areas and he was the general chairman of several international conferences
including ICSS’94, Sidi-Fredj, Algiers, Sept. 1994 and the Club EEA Congress, Tours (France), May 2009.
He is the Guest Editor of several scientific journals including “ Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal
Processing” Journal. Springer and books (Iste-Wiley, Springer and Hermes-Lavoisier).
He has a strong reviewing and consulting activities with more than 50 journals (mostly
IEEE) and some International Organizations, Companies and Ministries including EU, UNESCO,
Alcatel-Lucent, Sagem, GE, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the Ministry of
Foreign and European Affairs of France, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research of Algeria …
Prof. Abdeldjalil Ouahabi obtained many awards including the best paper from the IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society (1999) and recently (2013), he obtained the title of “Distinguished Visiting Professor” from Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA..
Title of the keynote speech
Advances in intelligent signal and image processing
Jalel Ben Othman is professor;
received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees both in Computer Science from the
University of Pierre et Marie Curie, (Paris 6) France in 1992, and 1994
respectively. He received his PhD degree from the University of Versailles,
France, in 1998. He is currently full professor at the University of Paris 13
since 2011 and member of L2S lab at CentraleSupélec. Dr. Ben-Othman's research
interests are in the area of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, VANETs, IoT,
performance evaluation and security in wireless networks in general. He was
the recipient of the IEEE COMSOC Communication Software technical committee Recognition
Award in 2016, the IEEE computer society Meritorious Service Award in 2016, and he is a Golden
Core Member of IEEE Computer Society, AHSN Exceptional Service and Contribution Award in 2018 and
the VEHCOM Fabio Neri award in 2018. He is currently in steering committee of IEEE Transaction on
Mobile computing (IEEE TMC), an editorial board member of several journals (IEEE Networks, IEEE COMML,
JCN, IJCS, SPY, Sensors…).
He has also served as TPC Co-Chair for IEEE Globecom and ICC conferences and other conferences as
(WCNC, IWCMC, VTC, ComComAp, ICNC, WCSP, Q2SWinet, P2MNET, WLN,....). He was the chair of the IEEE
Ad Hoc and sensor networks technical committee January 2016-2018, he was previously the vice chair and
secretary for this committee. He has been appointed as IEEE COMSOC distinguished lecturer from 2015 to
2018 where he did several tours all around the world and he has been appointed as a IEEE VTS distinguished
lecturer since July 2019. He is member of IEEE technical services board since 2016..
Title of the keynote speech
Threats and solutions for next generation connected vehicles to cyberspace
Mohamed Djemai is senior member of the IEEE, is currently full professor at the Polytechnic University
of Hauts-de-France of Valenciennes. France since 2008. He works at LAMIH - laboratory of industrial and human automation.
Mechanics and computer science France, CNRS.UMR-8201.
He obtained his doctorate in command engineering from the University of Paris XI in 1996.
He then joined ENSEA in Cergy-Pontoise in France where he held the position of Associate Professor until 2008.
Professor Djemaï's research focuses on the theory of non-linear control systems in general
with a main interest in hybrid systems, variable structure systems and the sliding mode approach: in control
detection of observation defects, as well as the analysis and modeling of hybrid dynamic systems and
industrial applications, including power systems, multi-agent systems, network and robotic control systems,
He is a member of the IFAC TC 2.1 IFAC TC control system. 1.3 on discrete and hybrid event systems.
He has published more than 80 articles, 150 confernces papers and 4 books in his field of research.
He has been General Chairman of several conferences (IEEE-ISCS, EFEA, IEEE-CEIT, etc.)..
Title of the keynote speech
An overview on hybrid systems : application to robotics and multi-agent systems
