Dr Soufiene Djahel

Who am I?

Soufiene Djahel is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computing and Mathematics at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), and a Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin (Ireland). He is the founder and head of the Smart and Sustainable Cities (S2C) lab within the Centre for Advanced Computational Science (CfACS). Dr. Djahel holds Ph.D, M.Sc., and Engineer degrees in computer science from Lille 1 University of Science and Technology, France, University Abderrahmane-Mira, Algeria, and University Badji-Mokhtar, Algeria, respectively. He published more than 70 peer-reviewed research articles in international journals and conferences on wireless networks, network security, intelligent transportation systems, e-healthcare, IoT and connected autonomous vehicles. He supervised to successful completion 4 Ph.D. students and 23 Master students, and currently supervising 4 Ph.D. students. He served as Engineering Research Manager at University College Dublin, Ireland; Postdoctoral Fellow at ENSIEE, France; Associate Lecturer and Researcher at Lille 1 University of Science and Technology, France; and Teaching Assistant at IMT Nord Europe, France. He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK and the Vice-Chair of the IEEE TCGCC SIG on Green Internet of Vehicles. Dr. Djahel is regularly invited to undertake different leadership roles in several IEEE sponsored international conferences; and serves as expert reviewer for three European research councils. He is the recipient of the FY2021 JSPS Invitational Fellowship for Research in Japan award from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Why do I teach?

To enrich my knowledge, improve my skills and help students to easily acquire new knowledge.

Words of wisdom

Seek, Learn, Question and Always Think Beyond Narrow Borders.

Academic and professional qualifications

• Dec. 2010: Ph.D. in Computer Science, High honors , Lille 1 University-Science and Technology, France
• Feb. 2007: Magister degree in Computer Science; 1st class honors (Major: Networking and Distributed Systems), University Abderrahmane Mira of Bejaia, Algeria
• Jun. 2004: State Engineering Diploma in Computer Science: 1st class honors (Major: Computer Science for Industry), University Badji Mokhtar of Annaba, Algeria

Previous employment

• Feb. 2014-Sep. 2015: Engineering Research Manager, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Feb. 2012-Jan. 2014: Postdoctoral fellow, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Mar. 2011-Jan. 2012: Postdoctoral fellow, ENSIIE, France
• Jan. 2010-Dec. 2010: Temporary Lecturer (ATER in French), Lille 1 University-Science and Technology, France

Languages

• Arabic (Mother tongue)
• English
• French

Why study ?

Undergraduate courses

• Information and Network Security
• Computer Networks and Operating Systems 
• Graduate Skills 

Postgraduate teaching

• Advanced Computer Networks 

Postgraduate supervision (completed/in progress)

• Ph.D thesis "Data Science Approaches for Air Quality Monitoring System Based on Edge Computing," Ahmed Moursi, Manoufia University, Egypt, Since October 2020. (In progress)
• Ph.D thesis "Planning, re-planning and task redistribution in cooperative UAV networks", Michael Jones, Manchester Metropolitan University, since April 2020. (In progress)
• Ph.D. thesis "A Novel Framework for Secure and Privacy-Preserving Access to Healthcare Resources", Colin Wilcox, Manchester Metropolitan University, Since April. 2019. (In progress)
• Ph.D. thesis "Designing Authentication Protocols for Body Sensor
  Networks", Jack Hodgkiss, Manchester Metropolitan University, Since Oct. 2018. (Thesis submitted in Jan. 1st 2022)
• Ph.D thesis "Devobot: From Biological Morphogenesis to Morphogenetic Swarm Robotics", Antoine Gaget, Manchester Metropolitan University, from Oct. 2019 to Dec. 2020 (Completed).
• MSc thesis "Software-Defined Networking (SDN) based Network Forensics", Hanan Mustapha, Manchester Metropolitan University, May. 2018 - Sep. 2018. (Completed)
• Ph.D. thesis "Enhanced Wireless Congestion Control in Urban Vehicular Environments", Sofiane Zemouri, University College Dublin, Ireland (with Prof. John Murphy), Apr. 2013 - Jul. 2016 (Completed) - Currently Network Research Scientist at IBM – Ireland
• Ph.D. thesis "Reducing Non-Recurrent Urban Traffic Congestion using Vehicle Re-routing", Shen Wang, Dublin City University, Ireland (with Dr. Jennifer McManis),  Oct. 2012 - Jul. 2016 (Completed) - Currently Assistant Professor at University College Dublin, Ireland.
• Ph.D. thesis "Efficient data collection in Wireless Sensor Networks", Horiya Imane Brahmi, UCD, Ireland (with Prof. J. Murphy), Feb. 2012 - Feb. 2016 (Completed) - Currently researcher at Intel Labs, Ireland.
• MSc thesis "Application of Cognitive Radio Technology to enhance the transmission reliability of safety messages in Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks", Horiya Imane Brahmi, ENSIIE, France (with Prof. Y. Ghamri-Doudane), Mar. 2011 - Aug. 2011 (Completed)

Visiting Postgraduate students supervision:

• Ahmed Moursi, visiting PhD student from Manoufia University (Egypt) supported by Newton-Mosharafa fund PhD program.
• Topic:  Data Science Approaches for Air Quality Monitoring System Based on Edge Computing
• Host:  CfACS Smart Cities lab, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, Oct. 2020 to Sep. 2021

• Abdelbaset Kabou, visiting PhD student from CERIST, Algeria.
• Topic: Backpressure-based routing protocols design
• Host: CfACS Smart Cities lab, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, May/June 2016.

• Michal Škulka, visiting Master student from Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ.
• Topic : Developing a new handover mechanism by predicting the vehicles movement in smart cities. 
• Host: PEL, University College Dublin, Ireland, Jul. 2014 - Sep. 2014.

• Michal Vondra, visiting Ph.D. student from Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ.
• Topic : Investigating VANETs and LTE-A cooperation for more efficient offloading and low cost QoS guarantees for in-vehicles’ users
• Host: PEL, University College Dublin, Ireland,  Jan. 2014 - Jun. 2014.

External examiner roles

• Ph.D. thesis,  Lilia Idir, "Dissémination de données dans les réseaux véhiculaires", Paris Descartes University, France, Oct. 21, 2015.
• Ph.D. thesis, Bandar Alghamdi, "Study of scheduling methods on Wireless Sensor Networks", University of Reims Champagne Ardennes, France, Nov. 6, 2015.
• Ph.D. thesis, Dalil Moad, "Contribution à l’Amélioration de la Qualité de Service dans les Réseaux Sans-fil Multi-sauts", Paris Descartes University, France, Nov. 12, 2015.

Research expertise

• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
• Security and QoS issues in Wireless Networks
• IoT
• E-health

Academic collaborations

• University College Dublin, Ireland
• Institut Mines-Télécom/TELECOM Lille, France
• Paris Descartes University, France
• University of Rennes 1/IRISA, France
• The Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (USPN), France
• Huawei, France 
• Ulster university, UK
• Iowa State University, USA.
• University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
• CERIST Research Center, Algeria.
• German University of Technology in Oman, Sultanate of Oman
• The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
• Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science & Technology (QUEST), Pakistan

Publications

• Featured Works

  Z. Yousif, I. Hussain, S. Djahel, Y. Hadjadj-Aoul (2021). A Novel Energy-efficient Clustering Algorithm for more Sustainable Wireless Sensor Networks enabled Smart Cities Applications. Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks. 10(3),

  S. Zemouri, S. Djahel, J. Murphy (2019). An Altruistic Prediction-Based Congestion Control for Strict Beaconing Requirements in Urban VANETs. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. 49(12), pp.2582-2597.

  A. Kabou, N. Nouali-Taboudjemat, S. Djahel, S. Yahiaoui, O. Nouali (2019). Lifetime-aware backpressure-A new delay-enhanced backpressure-based routing protocol. IEEE Systems Journal. 13(1), pp.42-52.

  B. Moussaoui, S. Djahel, M. Smati, J. Murphy (2017). A Cross Layer Approach for Efficient Multimedia Data Dissemination in VANETs. Vehicular Communications. 9, pp.127-134.

  S. Zemouri, S. Djahel, J. Murphy (2015). A fast, reliable and lightweight distributed dissemination protocol for safety messages in Urban Vehicular Networks. Ad Hoc Networks. 27, pp.26-43.

  S. Djahel, R. Doolan, G-M. Muntean, J. Murphy (2015). A Communications-Oriented Perspective on Traffic Management Systems for Smart Cities: Challenges and Innovative Approaches. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 17(1), pp.125-151.

• Journal articles

  C. Mansfield, J. Hodgkiss, S. Djahel, A. Nag (2022). An Efficient Detour Computation Scheme for Electric Vehicles to Support Smart Cities’ Electrification. Electronics. 11(5), pp.803-803.

  Z. Yousif, I. Hussain, S. Djahel, Y. Hadjadj-Aoul (2021). A Novel Energy-efficient Clustering Algorithm for more Sustainable Wireless Sensor Networks enabled Smart Cities Applications. Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks. 10(3),

  P. Ren, L. Wang, W. Fang, S. Song, S. Djahel (2020). A novel squeeze YOLO-based real-time people counting approach. International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation. 16(2), pp.94-94.

  S. Zemouri, S. Djahel, J. Murphy (2019). An Altruistic Prediction-Based Congestion Control for Strict Beaconing Requirements in Urban VANETs. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. 49(12), pp.2582-2597.

  A. Kabou, N. Nouali-Taboudjemat, S. Djahel, S. Yahiaoui, O. Nouali (2019). Lifetime-aware backpressure-A new delay-enhanced backpressure-based routing protocol. IEEE Systems Journal. 13(1), pp.42-52.

  S. Djahel, C. Sommer, A. Marconi (2018). Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Advances in Smart and Green Transportation for Smart Cities. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 19(7), pp.2152-2155.

  B. Moussaoui, S. Djahel, M. Smati, J. Murphy (2017). A Cross Layer Approach for Efficient Multimedia Data Dissemination in VANETs. Vehicular Communications. 9, pp.127-134.

  S. Zemouri, S. Djahel, J. Murphy (2015). A fast, reliable and lightweight distributed dissemination protocol for safety messages in Urban Vehicular Networks. Ad Hoc Networks. 27, pp.26-43.

  S. Djahel, R. Doolan, G-M. Muntean, J. Murphy (2015). A Communications-Oriented Perspective on Traffic Management Systems for Smart Cities: Challenges and Innovative Approaches. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 17(1), pp.125-151.

  S. Djahel, F. Naït‐Abdesselam, Z. Zhang, A. Khokhar (2008). Defending against packet dropping attack in vehicular ad hoc networks. Security and Communication Networks. 1(3), pp.245-258.

• Conferences

  DR. ALEKO, S. Djahel (2019). An IoT Enabled Traffic Light Controllers Synchronization Method for Road Traffic Congestion Mitigation. In: 2019 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2). 14/10/2019. pp.709-715.

  J. Xu, S. Djahel, Y. Qiao (2015). Scalable Saliency-Aware Distributed Compressive Video Sensing. In: 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM). 14/12/2015. pp.327-330.

  J. Xu, S. Djahel, Y. Qiao, Z. Fu (2015). Perceptually-aware distributed compressive video sensing. In: 2015 Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP). 13/12/2015.

  S. Zemouri, S. Djahel, J. Murphy (2014). A Short-Term Vehicular Density Prediction Scheme for Enhanced Beaconing Control. In: 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). 6/12/2015.

  IH. Brahmi, S. Djahel, D. Magoni, J. Murphy (2015). A spatial correlation aware scheme for efficient data aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: 2015 IEEE 40th Local Computer Networks Conference Workshops (LCN Workshops). 26/10/2015. pp.847-854.

  B. Moussaoui, S. Djahel, H. Khelifi, S. Merniz (2015). Towards enhanced reactive routing in urban Vehicular Ad hoc Networks. In: 2015 International Conference on Protocol Engineering (ICPE) and International Conference on New Technologies of Distributed Systems (NTDS). 22/7/2015.

  A. Sawand, S. Djahel, Z. Zhang, F. Nait-Abdesselam (2014). Multidisciplinary approaches to achieving efficient and trustworthy eHealth monitoring systems. In: 2014 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC). 13/10/2014. pp.187-192.

  D. Moad, S. Djahel, F. Nait-Abdesselam (2014). Padovan sequence based Backoff Algorithm for improved wireless medium access in MANETs. In: 2014 Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS). 15/9/2014.

  S. Zemouri, S. Djahel, J. Murphy (2013). Short paper: Road-Casting: A new distributed dissemination protocol for safety messages in urban areas. In: 2013 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference. 16/12/2013. pp.234-237.

  HI. Brahmi, S. Djahel, J. Murphy (2013). Improving emergency messages transmission delay in road monitoring based WSNs. In: 6th Joint IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC). Canadian Univ Dubai, Dubai, U ARAB EMIRATES, 23/4/2013.

  . Vi Tran Ngoc Nha, S. Djahel, J. Murphy (2012). A comparative study of vehicles' routing algorithms for route planning in smart cities. In: 2012 First International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM). 20/11/2012.

  S. Djahel, F. Nait-Abdesselam (2010). Thwarting back-off rules violation in tactical wireless ad hoc networks. In: The IEEE symposium on Computers and Communications. 22/6/2010. pp.417-422.

  S. Djahel, F. Nait-Abdesselam, D. Turgut (2009). An Effective Strategy for Greedy Behavior in Wireless Ad hoc Networks. In: GLOBECOM 2009 - 2009 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference. Honolulu, HI, 30/11/2009. pp.5215-+.

  S. Djahel, F. Naït-Abdesselam, F. Ahsan (2009). Highlighting the effects of joint MAC layer misbehavior and virtual link attack in wireless ad hoc networks. In: 2009 IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2009. pp.756-763.

  S. Djahel, F. Nait-Abdesselam (2009). A Fuzzy Logic Based Scheme to Detect Adaptive Cheaters in Wireless LAN. In: 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications. Dresden, GERMANY, 14/6/2009. pp.4821-4825.

  Z. Zhang, F. Naït-Abdesselam, S. Djahel (2008). ARSoS: An adaptive, robust, and sub-optimal strategy for automated deployment of anomaly detection system in MANETs. In: IWCMC 2008 - International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference. pp.606-613.

  S. Djahel, F. Nait-Abdesselam (2008). Avoiding virtual link attacks in wireless ad hoc networks. In: 2008 IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications. Doha, QATAR, 31/3/2008. pp.355-360.

  R. Boudour, S. Djahel (2006). SYMTC: A performing symbolic model checker. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications.

Invited papers

• S. Djahel, N. Jabeur, R. Barrett and J. Murphy. Toward V2I Communication Technology-based Solution for Reducing Road Traffic Congestion in Smart Cities. ISNCC 2015, May 13-15, 2015, Yasmine Hammamet.

• A. Sawand, S. Djahel, Z. Zhang and F. Nait-abdesselam. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Achieving Efficient and Trustworthy eHealth Monitoring Systems. IEEE/CIC ICCC 2014, Oct. 13-15, Shanghai, China.

Invited talks:

• 1-2 December 2021, 10th International Conference on Internet of Everything, Microwave Engineering, Communication and Networks (IEMECON 2021), virtual conference.                                                  Title: Authentication in Body Area Networks enabled Smart Healthcare

• 26-27 August 2021, 8th International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN 2021), virtual conference.                                                                                                            Title: Securing Body Area networks in the Smart Healthcare Era

• 26th April 2021, International research workshop on Smart Transportation and Autonomous Systems (STAS), Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City, Chitoor, India.                                        Title: Unlocking the potential of CAVs in enabling Smarter and More Sustainable Mobility

• Sep. 28th, 2020: Tutorial at the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference
  Title: 5G enabled CAVs for Smart and Sustainable Mobility in Smart Cities
• July 6th, 2020: Keynote speech at the International Virtual Conference on Industry 4.0 (virtual conference)
  Title: An overview on CAVs technology: Potential Benefits and Emerging Challenges
• August 30th, 2019: Research seminar at BTIIC, Ulster University, Belfast, UK
  Title: An overview of CAVs technology and its potential in enabling Smarter, Safer, Cleaner and Sustainable Mobility
• May 2nd, 2019: NSF Workshop on Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Research in Cybersecurity,  Columbus State University, USA                                                                                                                                                                           Title: Securing Smart Healthcare
• April 30th, 2019: Research seminar at TSYS School of Computer science, Columbus State University, USA
  Title: An overview of CAVs technology and its potential in enabling Smarter, Safer, Cleaner and Sustainable Mobility
• March 29, 2019, research seminar at Ulster University, Belfast, UK                                                  Title: IoT in the context of Smart Cities: recent advances and open challenges                                                                                                                                           
• Oct. 12, 2018, invited speaker at the international workshop “Smart and Sustainable Cities: Between Reality and Aspiration” of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA), Rabat,Morocco.                                                                                                                                            Title: Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs): Challenges and Potential for enabling Safer, Faster and Greener Roads

• Sep. 10, 2018, invited tutorial speaker at IEEE RTSI 2018, Palermo, Italy.
  Title: Towards connected vehicles enabled smart transportation                 

• Jul. 30, 2018, research seminar at IRISA research centre, University of Rennes 1, France                       Title: An overview of Connected Vehicles Technology and its potential for making our roads safer and our journeys faster                                                                                   

• Sep.6, 2017, invited lecture at the IEEE European Summer School on Smart Cities, University of Trento, Italy
  Title: Smart transportation: recent advances, applications and emerging challenges                                                                                                                                                          
• Aug.31, 2017, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China.
  Title: Improving Smart Transportation Efficiency Through Vehicular Communication
  

• 23 May 2014, Korea University, South Korea.
  Title: ITS Applications in Smart Cities: Research Challenges and Achievements
  
  
• 29 April 2014, City University London, UK (final COST meeting)
  Title: An Improved Distributed Dissemination Protocol for Safety Messages in Urban Vehicular Networks
  

Conference organisation

I am/was the General co-chair of:

• IEEE ISC2 2021, The 7th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, September 7-10, 2021 – Virtual Conference

• Wireless Days 2019, The 11th Wireless Days Conference (WD 2019), 24 – 26 April 2019, Manchester, United Kingdom

• MobileHealth 2018, The  8th ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Healthcare, co-located with The 19th ACM MobileHoc 2018, June 26-29, Los Angles, USA.
  

• ICT-DM 2018, The 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management, Sendai, Japan, 4 -7 December 2018.                                                                                                                                     
• ISNCC 2016, The International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications, Sousse, Tunisia, 11-13 May 2016.

• RA-WERHA 2015 (RA-WERHA2015 ), the First International Workshop on Recent Advances in WBANs Design and Deployment for Real-time and Healthcare Applications, co-located with IEEE CCNC 2015, 9-12 January 2015, Las Vegas Nevada, USA.

• VTM 2014 (VTM2014), the Second International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities, co-located with The 2014 IEEE 79th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2014-Spring), 18-21 May 2014, Seoul, Korea.

I am/was the TPC co-chair of:

• The Third International Conference on Smart Cities (ISC2 2017), Wuxi, China, 14-17 September 2017.
• The Second IEEE International Conference on Smart Cities (IEEE ISC2 2016), Trento, Italy, 12-15 September 2016.

• ISNCC 2015, The International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications, Sousse, Tunisia, 12-14 May 2015.

• VTM 2012, the first international workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities, co-located with IFIP WD 2012 (I am the co-founder of this workshop).

I am/was the Track co-chair of:

• Smart Healthcare technical track at IEEE RTSI 2017
  
• Network track at the 9th EAI International Wireless Internet Conference WiCON 2016

I am in the Steering Committee of:

• Since 2015: The International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM 2017).

• The First IEEE International Conference on Smart Cities (IEEE ISC2 2015).

I am/was the Publication co-chair of:

• IEEE ISC2 2020
• IEEE ISC2 2018
• IEEE ISC2-2015
• GIIS 2014
• IEEE/IFIP WD 2013
• IEEE/IFIP WD 2012

I am/was a Special Session co-chair in:

• GIIS 2014
• IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2013
• IEEE PIMRC 2013

Expert reviewer for journals and publishers

I am/was in the TPC of:

IEEE/IFIP WD 2011, IEEE WCNC 2012, IEEE IWCMC 2012, IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, IFIP WD 2012, IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2012, IEEE/ACM ICCVE 2012, IEEE GIIS 2012, IEEE ICC 2013, IEEE GLOBECOM 2013, IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2013, IEEE GIIS 2013, IEEE/ACM ICCVE 2013, IEEE WF-IoT 2014, IEEE WCNC 2014, IEEE GLOBECOM 2014, IOV 2014, IEEE/IFIP WD 2014, IEEE GIIS 2014, IEEE/ACM ICCVE 2014, ATC-2014, IEEE WCNC 2015, IEEE ICC 2015, FNC 2015, IEEE WF-IoT 2015, IEEE Globecom 2015, GIIS 2015. ICCVE 2015, IEEE ICC 2016, IEEE WCNC 2016, IFIP WDs 2016, FNC 2016, IEEE Globecom 2016, WF-IoT 2016, GIIS 2016, IEEE PIMRC 2016, IEEE ICC 2017, GIIS 2017, IFIP WD’17, GIoTS'17, IEEE Globecom 2017, IEEE PIMRC 2017, IEEE Globecom 2018, IEEE ICC 2018, IEEE Globecom 2019

I am serving as a reviewer for:

IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Pervasive Computing, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Elsevier Computers & Security, Elsevier Computer Networks, Elsevier Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, Elsevier Journal of Vehicular Communications, Journal of Network and Systems Management, Sensors, World Wide Web, The Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on ITS, Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Elsevier Computers & Security, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Projects and initiatives

• Feb. 2012 - Apr. 2016: Participation in Lero (http://www.lero.ie/) funded project TRAFFIC: “Smart Routing and Data Management Systems”.

1. Sponsor: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
2. Role: particpant as an Engineering Research Manager at PEL-UCD and leading the research activities on wireless networks and ITS

• Jun. 2013 - Jun. 2014: COST Action IC0906: Wireless Networking for Moving Objects (WiNeMo). The objective of this action is to foster discussions and collaborative research activities on “Wireless Networking for Moving Objects”. WiNeMo regroups partners from 20 European countries. 

1. Sponsor: COST
2. Role: I was a member of the Management Committee representing Ireland.  

• Jan. 2013 - Dec. 2013: Adaptive Road Traffic Management for Time-Efficient and Secure Emergency Service Response.                                                                                                                          

1. Sponsor: le  programme franco-irlandais Ulysses, French Embassy
2.  Role:particpant as an Engineering Research Manager at PEL-UCD, Ireland

•  Mar. 2011 – Jan. 2012: ITEA2 DiYSE Project: “Do-it-Yourself Smart Experiences”.                    

1.  Sponsor: ITEA2                                                                              
2. Role: participant as a postdoc fellow at ENSIIE, France

• Jul. 2007 – Dec. 2009: CLADIS project:” Cross-LAyer Design to Improve Security in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks”.                      

1. Sponsor: ANR  
2. Role: particiapnt as a Ph.D. student at Lille1 University Science and Technology, France

Consultancy and advisory roles

- Business fellow @ Transport Systems Catapult (Jan. 2019 - Dec. 2019)

Prizes and awards

• 12/2020, FY2021 JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan 
• 01/2011, IBM/IRCSET Enterprise Partnership Scheme Award.
• 09/2009, Travel Grant from IEEE communications society to attend and present a research paper at IEEE Globecom 2009.
• 07/2007, Scholarship for six month internship from INRIA Research Center, Lille, France.
• 06/2004, Best engineer in the faculty of engineering at University Badji Mokhtar Annaba, Algeria.

Expert reviewer for external funding bodies

- Since July 2018: expert reviewer for the Netherlands’ research council for the Engineering and Applied Sciences ( Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) | domain Applied and Engineering Sciences (TTW)

- Since May 2019: Expert reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Div. Mathematics, Physical and Engineering Sciences.

- Since July 2019: Expert reviewer for Czech Science Foundation.

Editorial board membership

- Founding Associate Editor at Frontiers in Sustainable Cities - the Smart Technologies and Cities section  

- Associate Editor of the IEEE Networking Letters

Membership of professional associations

• IEEE senior member
• FHEA