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is a professor and researcher at the University of Quebec- UQAC, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in 2009 from Laval University, Quebec, Canada. He joined the University of Ottawa in July 2009 as a post-doc fellow and member of Wireless Heterogeneous Sensor Networks in the e-Society WiSense project. From 2012 to 2014, he was with BLiNQ Networks in Kanata, where he was involved in the development and testing of dual-carrier NLOS TDD backhaul for small-cell 4G/LTE mobile applications. He worked as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Ottawa and as a Manager of Next-Generation Network (NGN) /VoIP & Emerging Technologies at Bell Canada. Dr. Chehri received many prestigious awards, including, Dean’s Scholarship Award, Postdoctoral Studies (University Ottawa), Scholarship Fund to Support Success (Laval University), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, MITACS, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Chehri served as a workshop co-chair of the first IEEE International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IEEE ICC 2012). He served as guest editor and severed as a technical reviewer for several international conferences and journals.

received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Hanyang University, Korea, in 2003, 2005, and 2008, respectively. From 2009 to 2011, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and from 2011 to 2012, he was an assistant professor at Niigata University, Japan. He is a professor at Xidian University, China and Incheon National University, South Korea. His research interests fall under the umbrella of image processing, deep learning, artificial intelligence, smart grid, and Industry 4.0.

received the B.S. (2001), M.S. (2003) from the Mohamed V Univ. and Ph.D. (2007) from the Univ. of Mohamed V jointly with Eurecom Institute. He is currently a full professor at the department of electrical engineering in the Hassania School of Public Works (HSPW or EHTP). From Marsh 2003 through July 2006, he had worked for Eurecom Institute, France, where he developed a framework for UWB channel characterization and modeling as a research engineer. His research interests are Wireless Communications System (Massive MIMO, SC-FDMA, OFDM, Dynamic Spectrum Detection and Radio Cognitive), Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Estimation Theory, Smart City and Smart Agriculture Applications. He has also worked on reliability for UWB Communication Systems. He received the SCA'19 Award for the best paper in the Smart Cities Applications Conference 2019. His profile on Publons with 109 publications and 258 reviews. He is the Head Laboratory for the LaGeS laboratory at HSWP. He has authored or co-authored over 100 papers.

is an Associate Professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano. Marco’s research interests are in the area of Computational Intelligence and its application to the design of complex systems and services. Recently, he has been investigating the adoption of Computational Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence techniques in the area of Security mechanisms for distributed systems, with particular consideration of Cloud and SOA security and software/service certification where Computational Intelligence provides new notions of ordering and matching of security properties. He is currently applying Big Data analytics to compute security and assurance metrics of Cloud systems and IoT systems in order to verify compliance to standards and policies. He has published several papers in journals and conference proceedings, and has served in the program committee of several international conferences.