Department of Computing and Mathematics awards

Award for Outstanding Service

Professor Rene Doursat – Outstanding Service Award

Professor Rene Doursat has been given an award for Outstanding Service. This followed Professor’s Rene’s following being the Secretary of the International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL - http://alife.org), after election to the Board of Directors (http://www.alife.org/board-members).

Further achievements by Professor Rene include:

-       Chairing and organising the entire ECAL 2011 conference (http://ecal11.org)

-       Organising a series of 7 ALife workshops (http://doursat.free.fr/mew2017.html)

-       Directing 4 times the ISAL summer school (https://project.inria.fr/ecal2017/fourth-isal-summer-school/),

Professor Rene is also now named as Book Review Editor of the ALife journal with MIT Press (http://www.mitpressjournals.org/journals/artl/editorial)

You can find a list of the award winners on the ALife Society website.

Dr Khaled Rabie – IEEE ICC

Dr Khaled Rabie recently presented a technical paper, co-authored by Dr Bamidele Adebisi, at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), which took place in Paris.

IEEE ICC is one of two flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), together with IEEE GLOBECOM (one of two flagship conferences of the IEE ComSoc), dedicated to driving innovation in nearly every aspect of communications. The title of the presented paper is ‘Outage probability and energy efficiency of DF relaying power line communication networks: Cooperative and non-cooperative’.

The IEEE ComSoc is a leading global community comprised of a diverse set of professionals with a common interest in advancing all communications and networking technologies. IEEE ComSoc has over 28,000 members in more than 149 countries.

In addition, IEEE GLOBECOM has accepted another paper for Khaled, also co-authored by Bamidele, which will be presented later this year in Singapore. The title of this paper is ‘Ergodic Capacity Analysis of Wireless Powered AF Relaying Systems over α-μ Fading Channels’.

More details can be found at

http://icc2017.ieee-icc.org/

http://globecom2017.ieee-globecom.org/

https://www.ieee.org/about/index.html?WT.mc_id=head_bm

Dr Soufiene Djahel – Smart Transportation

Dr Soufiene Djahel delivered an invited lecture on Smart Transportation during the IEEE European Summer School on Smart Cities organised at the University of Trento (Italy) on September 4-8, 2017.

The school has gathered experts from Europe, USA and Middle East (http://events.unitn.it/en/ieees3ceu2017/program) who presented their recent research work on transportation, healthcare, IoT, big data and security, and highlighted several issues that need to be solved before making smart cities a reality. The school has attracted a wide range of participants ranging from MSc and PhD students to researchers from industry and academia.