Invited talks
10/09/2023: “Federated Learning: Hype or Hope?”, 21th International Conference of Complex Acute Illness, 2023 – scientific session: “Quantitative understanding of critical illness: Integrating Mechanism and Machine Learning”, Augsburg, Germany
4-5/05/2023: “Unleashing the Power of AI: Revolutionizing Industries and Personalizing Healthcare”, Tunisian Women and DATA + AI Summit 2023, Tunis, Tunisia. The event is organized by the RECONNECTT association in France in partnership with Women in Data Science at Stanford University (WiDS).
08/09/2022: “Federated learning for healthcare”, 20th International Conference of Complex Acute Illness, 2022
10/2022: “Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on education and society”, Inspire Health Summit 2022
21/07/2022: “Seeking the fortification of the convergence between biological computation and computational biology”, Dynamics of Immune Repertoires: Exploration and Translation, workshop, Dresden, Germany
17 – 18/05/2018: `A success story’, All Wales Summer School 2018, Cardiff, Wales, UK
05 – 06/07/2017: `A success story’, All Wales Summer School 2017, Swansea, Wales, UK
06/02/2017: `My MSC fellowship: The story so far’, MSCA Campaign – From the Association to Participation, Tunis, Tunisia.
09 – 11/09/2015: `Data pre-processing based on Rough Sets and the link to other theories’, The International Afro-European Conference for Industrial Advancement, Villejuif, France.
Editorial activities
Guest Editor
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Special Issue on Recent Advances in Immune Computation
Applied Soft Computing — Special Issue on Recent Advances in Immune Computation
Associate Editor
Applied Computing and Intelligence
Regular Program Committee Member for various international conferences and several refereed international journals
Organization of scientific events
The 2024 International Joint Conference on Rough Sets (IJCRS 2024), Rough Set School and Tutorial (co-organizer and chair)
FedCSIS/RSTA 2024, FedCSIS/RSTA 2023, FedCSIS/RSTA 2022– International Symposium on Rough Sets: Theory and Applications (co-organizer and chair)
Workshop on Federated Learning, 10/01/2023, Paris-Saclay, France (co-organizer and chair)
EEE CEC 2021, IEEE CEC 2020, IEEE CEC 2019, IEEE CEC 2018 – Special Session on Artificial Immune Systems – IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (co-organizer)
The first international Metaheuristics Summer School – MESS 2018, Taormina, Italy (Publicity chair)
Workshop on Algorithms in Nature (Organizer, Mentored by Prof Stephen Small (Fields Medal awardee)), Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Germany (2017)
`Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic’ session at `The Int’l Conf. on Swarm Intelligence’, Harbin, China (chair) (2013)
Expertise and responsibilities
Board member of EGC (Association Internationale Francophone d’Extraction et de Gestion des Connaissances (EGC)).
Co-responsable for EGC school (e-EGC).
Board member of the Tunisian Artificial Intelligence Society
Advisory Board Member for the European Researchers’ Night (Tunisia 2018)
Evaluator for ANRT: Evaluator of a CIFRE (Industrial Agreements for Training through Research) research project submitted to ANRT (National Association for Research and Technology) (2023).
Invited evaluator (2019), by the European Commission, to assess H2020-ICT projects.