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Mohsen Guizani

Machine Learning Department, MBZUAI, UAE

(Fellow, IEEE) received the BS (with distinction), MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA. He is currently a Professor of Machine Learning at the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE. Previously, he worked in different institutions in the USA. His research interests include applied machine learning and artificial intelligence, smart city, Internet of Things (IoT), intelligent autonomous systems, and cybersecurity. He became an IEEE Fellow in 2009 and was listed as a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Dr. Guizani has won several research awards including the “2015 IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award”, the Best ComSoc Journal Paper Award in 2021 as well 5 Best Paper Awards from ICC and Globecom Conferences. He is the author of 11 books, more than 1000 publications and several US patents. He is also the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Wireless Technical Committee (WTC) Recognition Award, the 2018 AdHoc Technical Committee Recognition Award, and the 2019 IEEE Communications and Information Security Technical Recognition (CISTC) Award. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Network and is currently serving on the Editorial Boards of many IEEE Transactions and Magazines. He was the Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Wireless Technical Committee and the Chair of the TAOS Technical Committee. He served as the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Speaker and is currently the IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer. 

Keynote Title: 

Large Language Models (LLMs) for Wireless Systems Security 

With the advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) that is transforming and its use in many of our daily applications, our society is changing rapidly. Future wireless services will be impacted with such new technologies that require large amounts of data. Therefore, the focus is how to collect the large data and how to protect it so that we can improve the quality of life by enabling various applications, such as extended reality, brain-computer interaction, and VR/XR. These applications will have diverse performance requirements (e.g., user-defined quality of experience metrics, latency, and reliability) which will be challenging to be fulfilled by existing wireless systems. In addition, it is very important to provide security. To meet the diverse requirements of the emerging applications, the concept of secure LLMs has been recently proposed and used. The main challenge is to how to secure the data at the different IoT devices to provide Edge Computing LLMs. The latter requires the use of new computing technologies (e.g., edge computing), security related technologies (e.g., blockchain) and machine learning, to enable smart city applications. On the other hand, federated learning (FL) has provided a private platform in many of these applications to protect the data and reduce latency. These smart services/applications rely on efficient computation and communication resources. Furthermore, being able to provide adequate services using these complex systems presents enormous challenges. 

In this talk, we will present an overview of the LLM for Security, Security for LLM, and open challenges. Then, we showcase our research activities that will contribute to these efforts and advocate possible solutions using these models. We provide ways on how to use LLMs and efficiently offer better solutions to new applications (e.g., intelligent transportation, digital healthcare, extended reality applications, Industry 4.0,  haptics applications, etc.). Finally, we discuss some of our research results and future directions to support a variety of applications.

Jalel Ben Othman

University of Paris 13, France

Prof. Ben-Othman received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees both in Computer Science from the University of  Pierre et Marie Curie, (Paris 6) France in 1992, and 1994 respectively. He received his PhD degree from the University of Versailles, France, in 1998. He is currently full professor at the University of Paris 13 since 2011 and member of L2S lab at CentraleSupélec.  Dr. Ben-Othman's research interests are in the area of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, VANETs, IoT, performance evaluation and  security in wireless networks in general. He was the recipient of the IEEE COMSOC Communication Software technical committee Recognition Award in 2016, the IEEE computer society Meritorious Service Award in 2016,  and he is a Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society, AHSN Exceptional Service and Contribution Award in 2018 and the VEHCOM Fabio Neri award in 2018. He has served as  steering committee member of IEEE Transaction on Mobile computing (IEEE TMC), he is currently a senior Editor of IEEE communication letters (IEEE COMML) an editorial board member of several journals (IEEE Networks, IEEE IoT journal,  JCN, IJCS, SPY, Sensors, …). He has also served as TPC Co-Chair for  IEEE Globecom and ICC conferences and other conferences as   (WCNC, IWCMC, VTC, ComComAp, ICNC, WCSP,  Q2SWinet, P2MNET, WLN,....).  He was the chair of the IEEE Ad Hoc and sensor networks technical committee January 2016-2018, he was previously the vice chair and secretary for this committee. He has been appointed as IEEE COMSOC distinguished lecturer from 2015 to 2018 and he is currently IEEE VTS distinguished lecturer where he did several tours all around the world.

Keynote Title: 

Revolutionizing Urban Mobility and Enhancing Vehicle Security: A Deep Dive into ICT Innovations in Smart City Communication 

With the exponential growth of the global population projected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030, and a significant portion expected to reside in urban centers, effective mobility management becomes paramount to address the ensuing traffic surge. Managing mobility is crucial to prevent congestion on roadways. Concurrently, advancements in technology, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), offer promising solutions to enhance mobility management in cities. Smart city initiatives leverage technologies like Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and IoT to efficiently utilize and oversee infrastructure, resources, transportation, traffic, and services, involving various stakeholders like humans, drones, vehicles, smart devices, and buildings. In this presentation, I will explore how ICT can be leveraged to manage vehicle mobility effectively, while also discussing the potential threats that ICT systems may encounter in this context.