Lecturers

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel SIKORA

Axel Sikora holds a master (Dipl.-Ing.) of Electrical Engineering and a master (Dipl. Wirt.-Ing.) of Business Administration, both from Aachen Technical University, Germany. He has done a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the Fraunhofer Institute of Microelectronics Circuits and Systems, Duisburg, with a thesis on SOI-technologies. After various positions in the telecommunications and semiconductor industry, he became a professor at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach in 1999. In 2011, he joined Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, where he holds the professorship of Embedded Systems and Communication Electronics. His major interest is in the field of efficient, energy-aware, autonomous, and value-added algorithms and protocols for wired and wireless embedded communication with a strong focus on primary communication and gateway solutions for smart grid applications. Dr. Sikora is founder and Head of Steinbeis Transfer Center Embedded Design and Networking (stzedn), where a large part of industrial projects are performed around energetic networks. He is the author, co-author, and editor and co-editor of several textbooks and numerous papers in the field of embedded design and wireless & wired networking. Amongst many other duties, he serves as member of the Steering Board of the Annual Embedded World Conference and as Head of Program Committee of the Annual European ZigBee Developers’ Conference.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. NAGEL

Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel is full professor of Computer Architecture at the Institute for Computer Engineering at Technical University Dresden. He graduated from Aachen University (RWTH) with a diploma in computer science and a PhD, and has worked in the field of parallel programming since the early 80ies. Already in 1986, he was invited to give a presentation at the very first Supercomputer Conference/Seminar in Mannheim. Apart from analysis of innovative computer architectures and the development of efficient algorithms and methods, his research profile covers modern programming concepts and software tools to support complex compute and data intensive applications. He has published more than 100 papers in those areas, and has been either a program committee member, program chair, or general chair at more than 50 conferences and workshops. Furthermore, he has been the dean of the Computer Science department at TU Dresden from 2006 to 2009, and he is the Chairman of Gauß-Allianz e.V., Berlin. Since 2005, he has been a member of the DFG Commission for Computer Infrastructure (KfR) as well as of the Leibniz-Association’s Senate Evaluation Committee.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jeronimo CASTRILLON-MAZO

Jeronimo Castrillon-Mazo received the Electronics Engineering degree with honors from the Pontificia Bolivariana University in Colombia in 2004, the master degree from the ALaRI Institute in Switzerland in 2006 and the Ph.D. degree (Dr.-Ing.) on Electric Engineering and Information Technology with honors from the RWTH Aachen University in Germany in 2013. From early 2009 to April 2013, he was the chief engineer of the chair for Software for Systems on Silicon in the RWTH Aachen University, where he was enrolled as research staff since late 2006. In May 2014, Dr. Castrillon joined the TU Dresden as a professor for compiler construction in the context for the CfAED Research Cluster (www.cfaed.tu-dresden.de).

Emeritus Prof. Farouk Kamoun

Farouk Kamoun received an Engineering Degree from the Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, Paris, France in 1970 and the Ph.D. degree in computer science, in 1976, from UCLA, where he participated in the ARPA Network Project and did his research on design considerations for large computer communication networks. He is currently chairman of the board of SESAME a Private School of Applied Science and Management and Professor Emeritus co-chairman of Ramsis research group of the CRISTAL Research Laboratory at the Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique, ENSI, Tunisia. His research areas deal with Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks, Internet of Things and Smart Cities. He is member of several associations and in particular the iMFV Group working on developing the Future Vision of intelligent Mobility. He is chairman of the first Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group, MAG, of the Tunisian Internet Governance Forum and co-founder and president of the African e-Governance for Inclusive Development Foundation, AeGID-F, created in August 2015.

He previously served as Dean of ENSI as well as chairman and CEO of the Centre National de l’Informatique, CNI, a Government Agency in charge of IT policies, regulation and government software development.

Dr.-Ing. Mohamed Amine ABID:

Mohamed Amine ABID is currently appointed as an associate professor at the National School of Computer Sciences (ENSI) in Tunisia; and he is a senior member at SERCOM laboratory. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees both in Computer science, in the area of networks and distributed systems, from the National School of Computer Science, in 2009 and 2012 respectively. His research and teaching interests focus on mobile ad hoc and wireless sensor networks. Particularly, he works on QoS management in wireless networks, location-based routing, RPL and precision agriculture, M2M, IoT, autonomous flying machines, performance evaluation and protocol optimization and specification. In September 2012, he was appointed as an associate professor at the networking and distributed systems department at ENSI. Since then, he also served as an invited professor in several Engineering schools in Tunisia (Tunisia Polytechnic Engineering School (EPT), Higher School of Digital Economy (ESEN), etc.).

Dr.-Ing. Moez BEN HAJ HMIDA:

Moez Ben Haj Hmida received the engineering degree, M.Sc. and Ph.D in Computer Science from the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia. He is currently an associate professor at the National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT), Tunisia. His current research interests focus on Big Data analysis and mining applications. Especially, he works on data credibility and distributed data mining of large datasets.

Eng. Mehdi BOUZID:

Mehdi BOUZID is an Electrical Engineer graduated from the ENIT (National Engineering School of Tunis) in 2007, he worked as a Business Development Engineer for 1 year in M2A Ingenierie company in Tunisia, he then joined National Instruments as an Applications Engineer within the Arabia Branch, he was responsible of Customer Education and technical assistance in the region including missions to Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Lebanon and Turkey. In 2012 he was promoted to a Field Sales Engineer position working in the Maghreb Area and focusing on Tunisian and Algerian market, in 2014 he was assigned as Field Sales Engineer for the whole Maghreb area and in October 2014 he was promoted to Sr Field Sales Engineer for the same region. Mehdi joined the National Instruments Circle of Excellence, Gold Level, in January 2015 and was promoted to District Sales Manager in October 2015

Eng. Mohamed BEN AHMED:

Mohamed Ben Ahmed graduated from the Tunisia Polytechnic School (EPT) in 2001. Since his graduation, he worked at STMicroelectronics. The first position that he filled for 4 years was Applications Engineer. Starting from July 2005, he worked as a Applications and Support Manager of MCD Division (16-32bits MCUs). He also occupied the position of MMS Microcontrollers Tunis Site Manager during 10 years. From 2010 until now, he worked as Applications and Support Manager at the same company.