Service

IEEE Senior Member.

Vice-Chair, IEEE Morocco Section, 2020-2022.

Chairman of the ITU's Group on Capacity Building Initiatives (GCBI): 2023-2026.

Expert Member of the ITU's Group on Capacity Building Initiatives (GCBI): 2019-2022.

Member of the Steering Committee of the ITU's Centres of Excellence (CoE) Network, 2019-2022.

ITU's INPT CoE Project Focal Point, 2017-2018.

Co-founder and Former President of the “Moroccan ICT Association” (AMTIC).

IEEE Morocco Section Membership Development Coordinator, 2017-2020.

Voting Member of the Board, IEEE ComSoc EMEA Region, 2020-2021.

Former Chair of the IEEE Standards Association Work Group MobiNet-SC P1933.1.

Focal Point of the Industrial Research Chair PRACom, INPT, Morocco, and IMT-Atlantique, France.

Jury Member, IEEE R8 Student Paper Contest Committee, 2017-2021. 

IEEE INPT Student Branch (founding) Counselor (since April 2015).

Editor for the following journals:

• • IEEE Communications Letter (Exemplary Editor 2024).

  • Frontiers in Communications and Networks (Associate Editor), "Communications Theory" specialty.

  • IEEE Access (Guest Editor).

  • Springer Journal on Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (Guest Editor), Special issue on "Ubiquitous Networking".

Reviewer for the following journals:

• • “IEEE Transactions on Communications”.

  • “IEEE Communications Magazine”.

  • “IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications”.

  • “IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications”.

  • “IEEE Network Magazine”.

  • “IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society”.

  • “IEEE Communications Letters”.

  • “IEEE Wireless Communications Letters”.

  • “IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking”.

  • “IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems”.

  • “IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology”.

  • “IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics”.

  • “Elsevier Journal of The Franklin Institute”.

  • “Elsevier's Physical Communication Journal”.

  • “MDPI's Mathematics”.

  • “Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems” (IJCS).

  • “Springer Annals of Telecommunications” (Annales des Télécommunications).

Member of the Steering Committee of the following events:

• • International IEEE 5G-IoT Summit Hammamet. (Edition 1: 2 May 2018, Hammamet, Tunisia)

  • IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON). (Edition 19: 02-07 May 2018, Marrakesh, Morocco).

  • International IEEE IoT Summit Rabat. (Edition 1: 3 November 2017, Rabat, Morocco).

  • International IEEE 5G Summit Casablanca. (Edition 1: 11 May 2017, Casablanca, Morocco).

General Chair of the following events:

• • Special Session on "Emerging Technologies for Wireless Early Warning Systems", June 2024, Rome, Italy. [Co-located with the IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks, and Digitial Signal Processing (CSNDSP '24)].

  • IEEE Workshop on Scalable and Trustworthy AI for 6G Wireless Networks (6GSTRAIN), 28 May - 01 June 2023, Rome, Italy. [Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2023)].

  • IEEE Middle East & North Africa Communications Conference (MENACOMM '21), 3-5 December 2021, Agadir, Morocco (Virtual Mode).

  • IEEE Workshop on Decentralized AI for Wireless Networks with Zero-Touch (DAWN'Z), 14-18 June 2021, Montreal, Canada. [Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2021)].

  • Scientific Event on IT (SEIT'17), "Internet of Things: Recent Innovations and Challenges", May 3rd, 2017, Rabat, Morocco.

  • Scientific Event on IT (SEIT'16), "Smart Cities: Recent Innovations and Challenges", April 28, 2016, Rabat, Morocco.

  • Scientific Event on IT (SEIT'15), "La Recherche Scientifique au Service de l'Économie Numérique au Maroc'', April 29, 2015, Rabat, Morocco.

Technical Program Chair (TPC co-chair) for the following conferences:

• • The International Conference on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet '24), 26-28 June, 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco.

  • The International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM '18), 17-19 October, 2018, Marrakesh, Morocco.

  • The 19th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON '18), 02-07 May, 2018, Marrakesh, Morocco.

  • The International Workshop on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet '16), May 30 - June 1, 2016, Casablanca, Morocco.

TPC Track Chair for the following conferences:

• • 4th IEEE Middle East & North Africa Communications Conference (MENACOMM '22), 6-8 December, 2022, Amman, Jordan. Track4: Machine Learning and Optimization for Wireless Systems.

  • The IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC ’19), 15-18 April, 2019, Marrakech, Morocco. Track 2: MAC and Cross-Layer Design.

  • The International Workshop on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet ’18), 3–5 May, 2018, Hammamet, Tunisia. Track 1: Ubiquitous Communication Technologies and Networking.

  • The International Workshop on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet ’17), 10–12 May, 2017, Casablanca, Morocco. Track 4: Enablers, Challenges, and Applications.

Exhibits Chair for the following conferences:

• The IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC ’19), 15-18 April, 2019, Marrakech, Morocco.

Keynotes Chair for the following conferences:

• International Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Information Security (ACOSIS ’19), 20-22 November 2019, Marrakech, Morocco.

Publicity Chair for the following conferences:

• • International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet), 18-20 October 2023, Paris, France.

  • IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom), 5-8 July 2021, Athens, Greece.

  • 15th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 24–28 June 2019, Tangier, Morocco.

  • 28th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 08–13 October 2017, Montreal, QC, Canada.

  • International Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Information Security (ACOSIS), 17–19 October 2016, Marrakech, Morocco.

Keynote Session Chair for the following conferences: 

• • The 10th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Networking (IEEE UNet' 24), Keynote 2 "When Robotics Meets Wireless Communications" by Prof. Mounir Ghogho, International University of Rabat (UIR), Morocco. 26 June 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco.

  • The 19th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (IEEE MELECON '18), Keynote 4 (Room Kawni) “Developing Resilient Space Exploration Missions” by Prof. Michael Hinchey, Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (LERO), Ireland. 3 May 2018, Marrakech, Morocco.

  • International Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Information Security (ACOSIS), Keynote 4 (Room 1) “Paving the Way Towards 5G Wireless Communication Networks” by Prof. Mohamed- Slim Alouini KAUST, Saudi Arabia. 18 October 2016, Marrakech, Morocco. 

  • The International Workshop on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet’ 16), Keynote talk 3 (Lecture Hall) “Ad- dressing Spectrum Scarcity through Optical Wireless Communications” by Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini, KAUST, Saudi Arabia. May 31, 2016, Casablanca, Morocco.

Session Chair during the following conferences: 

• • IEEE International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet), Session VII – Networking  and Security 3, December 05, 2024, Rabat, Morocco.

  • IEEE 6G Summit Marrakesh, Session 3 - Spectrum Strategies and Global Connectivity in 6G Era, June 28, 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco.

  • IEEE International Conference on Signal, Image, Video, and Communications (ISIVC), Session I – Wireless and Network Communications, May 21, 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco.

  • IEEE International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet), Session VIII – Networking  and Security 3, December 12, 2023, Rabat, Morocco.

  • International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Session – Advances Towards 5G Communications (ThM-3), June 27, 2019, Tangier, Morocco.

  • Panel Chair at the International IEEE IoT Summit Rabat, November 3, 2017, Rabat, Morocco

  • International Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Information Security (ACOSIS), Session – Advanced Communication Systems 1 (ACS1), October 17, 2016, Marrakech, Morocco. 

  • The International Workshop on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet), Session – Context-Awareness and Autonomy Paradigms 2 (CAAP2), June 1, 2016, Casablanca, Morocco. 

  • IEEE International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM), Session 8 – Coding and Physical Layer 2, 20–22 October 2015, Marrakech, Morocco.

  • International Workshop on Coding, Cryptography and Communication Systems (WCCCS), Session ACS-1, 27 November 2014, El Jadida, Morocco.

  • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’12), Track 1 – Session PHY35: Cooperative Communications I, 1–4 April 2012, Paris, France.

TPC member and/or reviewer for the following conferences (non-exhaustive list): 

• IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM): ’06, ’07, ’09, ’10, ... , ’21, ’22, ’23, ’24, ’25.

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): ’06, ’07, ’08, ’10, ’11, ’12, ’13, ’14, ’16, ’17, ’18, ’21.

• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC): ’05, ’09, ’11, ’12, ’18, ’19, ’24, ’25.

• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC): ’06, ’09, ’10, ’14, ’15, ’17, ’18, ’20, ’21, ’22, ’23, ’24, ’25.

• IEEE Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC): ’11, ’13, ’16, ’18, ’20, ’23, ’24.

• International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC): ’09, ’11, ’18, ... , ’24.

• IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom): ’22, ’23, '24, '25.

• 6G Summit: ’20, ’21, ’22, ’23, ’24, ’25.

• European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC): ’21, ’22, ’23, ’24, ’25.

• IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC): '17, ’18, ’21, ’22, ’23, ’24, ’25.

• IEEE International Conf. Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Commun. (WiMob): ’15, ’16, ’17, ’23, ’24, ’25. 

• IEEE Biennial Symposium on Communications (BSC): ’06, ’08, '10, ’21, ’23.

• IEEE Middle East & North Africa Communications Conference (MENACOMM): '19, '21, '22', '25.

• IEEE Latin-American Conference on COmmunications (LATINCOM): ’23.

• IEEE International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM): ’15, ... , ’20, ’22, ’23, ’24.

• IEEE International Workshop on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet): ’16, ’17, ’18, ’19, ’21, ’22, ’23, ’24.

• IEEE International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet): '18, '23, ’24.

• International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT): ’10, ’13, '18, '19, '20, '21.

• IEEE Green Technologies Conference (GreenTech): ’18, ’20.

• IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2): ’19.

• International Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Info. Security (ACOSIS): ’16, '19.

• International Conf. on Recent Advances in Signal Proc., Telecoms & Computing (SigTelCom): ’19, ’20.

• International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS): '18, '19.

• International Conference on Internet of Things and Intelligence Systems (IoTaIS): ’18.

• IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS): ’18.

• International Workshop on Coding, Cryptography and Communication Systems (IWCCCS): ’11, ’13, ’14. 

• International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies (ICEIT).

Organizing team member of “IEEE Distinguished Lecturer” tours, Montreal Chapter.