Fethi Filali is the Head of Technology Development & Applied Research at Qatar Mobility Innovations Center (QMIC). He is leading the technology development of QMIC's solutions in the area of Smart Cities, Internet of Things, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Connected & Automated Vehicles solutions. He has invented technologies and developed algorithms that have been shipped in many QMIC products, including Masarak®, Labeeb® and WaveTraf®, creating commercial impact in the order of millions of dollars.

Dr. Filali received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Habilitation degrees from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, in 2002 and 2008, respectively.

Prior to joining QMIC in 2010, Dr. Filali was with the Mobile Communications department of EURECOM, France, as Assistant then Associate Professor for 8 years.

His research grants include 15 competitive awards from several funding agencies (European Commission, The French National Research Agency, and Qatar National Research Fund).

He was the Ph.D. Director of more than ten Ph.D. students in the area of intelligent transportation, wireless sensor and mesh networks, vehicular communications, big data analytics, internet of things, and mobility management.

Dr. Filali co-authored more than 130 research papers in international peer-reviewed conferences and journals and (co-)filed more than 10 patent applications.

Hossam Hassanein is a leading authority in the areas of broadband, wireless and mobile networks architecture, protocols, control and performance evaluation. His record spans more than 500 publications in journals, conferences and book chapters, in addition to numerous keynotes and plenary talks in flagship venues. Dr. Hassanein has received several recognitions and best papers awards at top international conferences. He is also the founder and director of the Telecommunications Research Lab (TRL) at Queen's University School of Computing, with extensive international academic and industrial collaborations. He is a former chair of the IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee on Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (TC AHSN). Dr. Hassanein is an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker and is a fellow of the IEEE.

Dr. Aboelmagd Noureldin is a Professor at the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada (RMCC) with Cross-Appointment at both the School of Computing and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University. He is also the founder and the director of the Navigation and Instrumentation research group at RMCC. His research is related to global navigation satellite systems including GPS, wireless location and navigation, indoor positioning and multi-sensor fusion targeting applications related to autonomous systems, intelligent transportation, road information services, crowd management, and internet of things.

Dr. Noureldin holds B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (1993) and M.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics (1997) both from Cairo University, Egypt. In addition, he holds Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2002) from The University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Dr. Noureldin is a Senior member of IEEE. He has published more than 230 papers in journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Noureldin’s research work led to 10 patents and three technologies licensed to industry in the area of position, location and navigation systems.

Saoud Al-Hamad received the B. Sc. degree in civil engineering from University of Colorado, USA, in 2012, and the M.Sc. degree in civil engineering with merit from the University of East London, UK, in 2018, where he has conducted a study on possibilities for increased pedestrian and cyclist safety at intersections and the diagonal crossing hybrid intersection. In 2013, he joined the Qatari Ministry of Interior where he received training as a member of the police force, after which he was promoted to a Lieutenant and received his post as a planning officer with the Ministry of Interior's Traffic Safety Department. In 2014, he worked as an assistant project leader on secondment with Ashghal's Expressways Department, in which he overlooked construction progress and conducted design approvals and inspections on Lusail and A/B Rings Expressways projects. He was assigned to a training attachment in Singapore, where he explored the Singaporean traffic policing experience with Singaporean Police Force. In 2016, Eng. Saoud was promoted to his current post as a First Lieutenant in the Traffic Safety Department.

Nizar Zorba received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from JUST University, Jordan, in 2002, the M.Sc. Degree in data communications and the M.B.A. degree from the University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, in 2004 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in signal processing for communications from UPC Barcelona, Spain, in 2007.

He is a Full Professor at the Electrical Engineering department at Qatar University, and he is currently the Vice-chair of the IEEE ComSoc Communication Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee. He is an IEEE Senior Member. Dr. Zorba is associate/guest editor for the IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Access, Springer/Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, IEEE Communications Magazine and IEEE Network. He is symposium chair at IEEE ICC 2019, workshop chair at IWCMC 2019 and track chair at IEEE GIIS 2018.

He has more than 110 publications in journals and conference proceedings, and his work led to 5 patents. His research interests span 5G networks optimization, demand-response in smart grids, and crowd management.