Membership in Associations

  • Senior Researcher with RIADI Laboratory, University of Manouba – Tunisia since 2006

  • Senior Researcher Fellow with ITI Department, University of Rennes 1 – France since 2015

  • Senior Researcher Fellow with CogBID Laboratory, Edinburgh Napier University – UK since 2015

  • Guest Editor for the Special Issue Big Data Analytics for Secure and Smart Environmental Services, Remote Sensing Journal (IF: 4.848)

  • Publicity Co-Chair, International Congress of Advanced Technology and Engineering (ICOTEN 2021), July 4-5, 2021

  • Program Chair, Second International Conference of Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies, March 15 - 17, 2022

  • Track chair “Artificial Intelligence”, 2nd International Conference of Advanced Computing and Informatics (ICACIn 2021), May 24-24, 2021

  • Session chair “Data Science and Big Data Analytics”, 5th International Conference of Reliable Information and Communication Technology 2020 - December 21 - 22, 2020

  • Session chair “Applications of AI/ML in Smart Cities”, IEEE International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC-2020), Montreal, Canada - October 20 - 22, 2020

  • Chairman of the special session DLAIDI 2018: Deep Learning based Approaches for Image Data Interpretation (IJCCI 2018 - 10th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence)

  • PC member (Special Track 2: Climate Change and Disaster Management Immersive Analytics), ILRN 2018 (The 4th Annual International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network)

  • Publicity Chair of the conference IEEE CICARE 2017/2018/2019 (IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and E-Health)

  • Silver Member with KES international (Society of Intelligent Systems)

  • Member of the program committee of CAJG 2020 (3rd Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Online, 2-5 November 2020)

  • Member of the organizing committee of ICBCC 2019 (6th EAI International Conference on Big data and Cloud Computing Challenges, Kansas City, USA 9-10 September, 2019)

  • Member of the program committee of ICANN 2019 (The 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Munich, Germany 17-19 September, 2019)

  • Member of the program committee of ICACI’20 (International Conference of Advanced Computing and informatics, Casablanca, Morocco, 12-13 April, 2020)

  • Member of the organizing committee of JS’2007, les cinquièmes Journées Scientifiques, Tunisia, May 23-24, 2007

  • Member of the organizing committee of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS2005) under the direction of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)


– Reviewer for several journals:

  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

  • Artificial Intelligence Review

  • Neural Computing & Applications

  • IEEE Access

  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding

  • Knowledge and Information Systems journal

  • Pattern Analysis and Applications

- Reviewer for several conferences: UCET (5th International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies 2020), FSDM (International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining 2017), NG2CT (Next Generation Computing and Communication Technologies 2017), IGARSS (IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008), SETIT (International Conference: Sciences of Electronic, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications 2016, 2009), E-MEDISYS’10 (International Conference of E-Medical Systems)