Journal Editorial Board

• Editor, IEEE Communications Letters (Sep. 2023 - Present)

• Associate Editor, IEEE Access (Oct. 2019 - Present)

• Associate Editor, Wireless Communications Section, Frontiers in Communications and Networks (June 2020-Present).

• Lead Guest Editor, Special issue Physical Layer Security for Future Wireless Communication Systems in Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal

• Editor Guest, Special issue Integrated access and backhaul for 5G in Frontiers in Communications and Networks 

Organizing Committee Chair

• General Chair, 7th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet'23), December 4-6, 2024, virtual conference.

• General Chair, 6th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet'23), December 11-13, 2023, virtual conference.

• General Chair, 5th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet'22), December 12-14, 2022, virtual conference.

• General Chair, 4th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet'21), December 3-5, 2021, Hybrid virtual conference.

• General Chair, 3rd International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet'20), September 4-6, 2020, virtual conference.

• General Chair, 2nd International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet'19), April 12-14, 2019, Rabat, Morocco.

• General Co-Chair, 1st International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet'18), April 2-4, 2018, Marrakech, Morocco.

• General Co-Chair, 1st International Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Information Security (ACOSIS'16), Oct 17-19, 2016, Marrakech, Morocco.

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair 

• TPC Chair, 2nd International Conference on Smart Digital Environment (ICSDE'18), October 18-19, 2018, Rabat, Morocco

• TPC Chair, 1st International Conference on Smart Digital Environment (ICSDE'17), July 21-23, 2017, Rabat, Morocco

• TPC Chair, Workshop on Codes, Cryptography & Commun. Systems (WCCCS'13), Nov. 07-08, 2013, Meknes, Morocco

Steering Committee 

• Steering Committee member, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet)

• Steering Committee member, 1st, and 2nd International Conference on Smart Digital Environment (ICSDE)

Invited Talks

• Talk, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), "Physical Layer Security of Wireless-powered NOMA-based Cognitive Radio Networks: Fundamentals & Challenges", July 1st, 2019, Kingdom Saudi Arabia.

• Keynote speaker, Niss Conference, "New Techniques for Physical Layer Security enhancement", March 28, 2019, Rabat, Morocco.

• Invited distinguished speaker, the 8th IEEE International Conference on Communications and Networking (ComNet’2020), Tunisia, Virtual conference, Hybrid Very High Throughput Satellites: Potential, Challenges, and Research Directions”, Oct. 27-30, 2020, Tunisia.

• Seminar "Fox's H-function and its Application", Multidisciplinary Faculty in Nador, December 31, 2021

• Talk, "Opportunistic Use of Optimal Stopping Theory for Machine Learning-based Algorithms", June 15th, 2022, Tübitak, Turkey.

• Talk, " AI-assisted Optimal Stopping Algorithms", January 13th, 2023, Multidisciplinary Fac. of Nador.

Research Visits

• King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, Host: Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini, July 2019.

• Fulbright invited professor, Western Michigan University, United states of America, Host: Prof Ala Al-Fuqaha, September-November 2016

• Texas A&M University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar, Host: Prof. Khalid M. Qaraqe, October 1st- November 29, 2021,

Thesis Supervising 

Defended

• Abdeslam Ahmadi "Decoders of Linear block codes based on Metaheuristics," Moulay Ismail University, Meknes, Morocco, defended on June 14th, 2014

• Abdelmajid Bessate "On the Performances of MIMO Systems over Weibull Fading Channels," Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, defended on July 17th, 2018

• ElMehdi Illi "On the performance analysis of underwater optical wireless communication systems," Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, defended on Nov. 21st, 2019

• Mounia Bouabdellah, "On the Secrecy Analysis of Cognitive Radio Networks," Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, defended on Jan. 20, 2021

• Toufik Chaayra, "Mathematical Modeling and Statistical Properties of Wireless Fading Channels," Moulay Ismail University, Meknes, Morocco, defended on June 19th, 2021

• Yassine Mouchtak, "On the Performance Analysis of Coded Wireless Communication Systems Subject to Hyper Fox's H-Fading Channels," Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, defended on Sep. 30th, 2021

• Hassan Saadaoui, "Local PSO-Based Approaches For Cooperative UAVs With Applications" Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco,  Defended on Mar. 2nd, 2023

• Khalid Mrabet, "Cryptographic Protocols and Blockchain-Based Reputation for Trust and Security Establishment in Decentralized Networks", Defended on Nov. 11th, 2023

Thesis Supervising - Ongoing 

• Imane Guerrab, "Wireless power transfer for intelligent reflecting surfaces-enabled multi-hop communication systems," Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco

• Mariya Sadiki, "Mathematical modeling assisted Physical layer authentication in Wireless Networks," Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco

• Moncef Zarrouk, "AI-based extra-layer stochastic optimal stopping algorithms," Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco

• Mohammad Oumoucha, "Bivariate Fox's H-function and Applications," Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco

Thesis Co-Supervising - Ongoing 

• Mohamed Bourhail, "Smart multi-agent systems for cooperative unmanned Aircraft Vehicle operating," Mohammed I University, Oujda, Morocco

• Youssef Miftah, “Physical layer security of underwater optical wireless communication,” Mohammed Ismail University, Meknes, Morocco

• El-Houcine El Baqqaly "On the Sum and Product of Correlated I-distributions and their Applications," Mohammed I University, Oujda, Morocco

Thesis Chairing 

• Yassine Ben-Aboud, "Edge optimization in the internet of things for urban monitoring and quality of life enhancement," ENSIAS-Mohammed V University in Rabat, September 8, 2022

• Driss El Majdoubi, "A smart blockchain-enabled end-to-end legal compliant sustainable approach for trust, security and privacy in smart healthcare environments," ENSIAS-Mohammed V University in Rabat, March 10, 2023

Reviewer of Thesis

1. Abdenbi El Hilali, "On a study of properties of certain entropy operators via some extended metrics to positive definite matrices," Faculty of Sciences, Ibt Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco, defended on December 2, 2022

2. Mariame Nassit, "On the Performance of the Fetal Heart Rate Piezo Sensor," Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, defended on June 20, 2021.

3. Safae Lhazmir, "Autonomic approaches based on game theory and learning algorithms for energy-efficiency in the Internet of things," Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, defended on Apr. 20, 2021

4. Halim Berradi, "Quality of Service enhancement in wireless networks," Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, defended on Dec. 25th, 2020

5. Oumaima Terrada, "Contribution à l'identification des anomalies cardiovasculaires et leur classification par des techniques du machine learning," Faculty of Sciences and Techniques (FST), Mohamedia, Morocco, defended on Dec. 19th, 2020

6. Mohammed Ali Ennasar, "Design and characterization of UHF-RFID TAG antennas for sensor IoT application," Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, defended on Dec. 16th, 2020

7. Jalal Eddine Bahbouhi, "Agent-Based Modeling of Games: Application to Electronic Commerce and Public Goods," Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco, defended on Oct. 1st, 2020

8. Hassan Bennani, "Mechanism to Achieve QoS in Virtual-MIMO Systems: A Game Theoretical Analysis," Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, defended on Jul. 25, 2018

9. Fatima Salahdine, "Compressive Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks," National Institute of Posts and Telecommunications, Rabat, Morocco, defended on Jan. 19, 2018

10. Brahim ElMaroud, "Analyse des performances et amélioration des systèmes FBMC dans les transmissions sans fil non linéaires et asynchrones," Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, defended on Jun. 25, 2016

Thesis Examination

1. Souad Labghough, "Performance Analysis of error correcting codes over 5G RF-FSO Communication System," ENSIAS-Mohammed V University in Rabat, Defended on March 1st, 2023

M.Sc. Supervision

• Ghizlane El Mannaoui, “Full test and validation of the new soft D5 RADAR for CP4 project”, ENSIAS, Rabat, defended on July 24, 2020.

• Abdellah EL Warraki, “Optimisation du cycle du traitement des gammes sous plateau industriel,” ENSIAS, Rabat, defended on Sep 29, 2020.

• Berdous hamid , "Système de camera surveillance du transport de marchandises basé sur une architecture IoT," ENSIAS, Rabat, defended on July 28, 2018.

• Houssam El-mzah, "Système de supervision et de gestion du transport des marchandises," ENSIAS, Rabat, July 28, 2018

• Zineb Er-rekhaouy, "Réalisation d'une plateforme de gestion de la chambre d'artisanat ," ENSIAS, Rabat, July 28, 2018

• Nabil Ben Salah, "Study and deployment of transmission technology NGWDM for Maroc Telecom," ENSIAS, Rabat, defended on Jul. 7, 2015

• Salah Eddine Haraj, "Study and implementation of VPN-Cloud solution based on Public Key Infrastructure authentication," ENSIAS, Rabat, defended on Oct. 2, 2015

• Asmae Boukallal, "Performance of MIMO Visible light communications," Faculty of Sciences, Rabat, defended on Nov. 17, 2017.

• Mariam Lahbizi, "Optimal decision fusion rules for images based compressive sensing in wireless sensors networks," Faculty of Sciences, Rabat, defended on Nov. 17, 2017.

• El-Houcine  El Baqqaly, "On the sum of i.i.d. lognormal distributions and applications,"  Multidisciplinary Faculty of Nador, defended on Oct. 22, 2022

Expertises

• Expert at the National Center for Scientific and Technical Research (CNRST), Morocco, From Feb. 21, 2023