Joaquim Ferreira, University of Aveiro and Telecommunications Institute, Portugal
Nadjib Aitsaadi, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
Joaquim Ferreira: Joaquim Ferreira holds a Ph.D in Informatics Engineering from the University of Aveiro (2005). Currently he is adjunct professor at the University of Aveiro and researcher at Telecommunications Institute. Formerly he was assistant professor of the University of Lisbon Faculty of Sciences, adjunct professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco and researcher at INESC and IEETA. His research interests include: dependable distributed systems, fault-tolerant real-time communications, wireless vehicular communications, cooperative ITS systems and medium access control protocols. He was principal investigator, local coordinator or participant in over 15 funded national and international research projects. He is a senior member of IEEE, has participated in more than 30 conference scientific committees and has served as guest editor in several journals.
He currently coordinates the Celtic Next project SARWS and the P2020 project PASMO. He is also coordinating the participation of IT in several projects, namely: P2020 TRUST, P2020 DETAINER and H2020 5G-MOBIX.
Nadjib Aitsaadi: Nadjib Aitsaadi is full professor at UVSQ Paris-Saclay University in France. He holds the Habilitation (HDR) in 2016 from Paris East University / France and PhD in 2010 from UPMC Sorbonne University / France. His main research field is the optimization of quality of service and security in wireless and wired networks such as: cellular network (5G, V2X, Femtocells, IoT, etc. ) and wired networks (backbone, DCN, NFV, SDN, etc.). He is involved in many national and European projects such as: Celtic Next SARWS, Celtic Plus TILAS, FP7 Goldfish, ANR HORIZON, etc. Prof. Nadjib Aitsaadi is involved in IEEEE ComSoc TCIIN technical committee and is playing the secretary position since January 2018 and as vice-chair in 01/2020 for two years. He served as general chair of “IEEE Cloudification of IoT 2018” and TPC chair of NGNI symposium at IEEE ICC’20, IEEE Cloudification of IoT 2017, SAC Cloud networks at IEEEE Globecom’16, etc. Prof. Aitsaadi served also as demonstration co-chair at IEEE/IFIP IM’17 and IEEE ICIN 2018. He served also as Tutorial co-chair at IEEE WCNC 2019 and as co-guest editor of SI “Cloudification IoT” in Springer Annals of telecommunications journal.