Keynote Speakers

Prof. Abderrahmane Lakas

Prof. Lakas received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer systems from the University of Paris 6, France, in 1996. He is with the Department of Computer and Network Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates, since 2003. His research interests are in the areas of wireless and mobile networks, quality of service, vehicular ad hoc networks, connected autonomous systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, and the Internet of Things. He is currently leading the CAST (Connected Autonomous Intelligent Systems) Research Laboratory. Prior to joining United Arab Emirates University, he has held technical positions in few high-tech companies in Canada and USA, such as Newbridge Networks, Ottawa, Canada, from 1996 to 1998, Nortel Networks, Ottawa, from 1998 to 2000, and Netrake, Dallas, TX, USA, from 2000 to 2002.

Prof. Elhadj Benkhelifa

Prof. Benkhelifa is a professor of computer science with the Staffordshire University. He is the founding head of the Cloud Computing and Applications Research Lab and the Cybersecurity Research Lab. He was the faculty director of the Mobile Fusion Applied Research Centre (2014-2016). His research interest include cloud computing, IOT, Software Engineering, and applied soft computing. He is a member of several research committees within the university and externally. He has co-founded and chaired a number of international conferences and workshops and edited a number of conference proceedings and journals special section.