Habib Zaidi is professor, he is head of the PET Instrumentation & Neuroimaging Laboratory at Geneva University Hospital and faculty member at the medical school of Geneva University. He is also a Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and Adjunct Professor of Medical Physics and Molecular Imaging at the University of Southern Denmark. He is actively involved in developing imaging solutions for cutting-edge interdisciplinary biomedical research and clinical diagnosis. He has been elevated to the grade of IEEE fellow and was elected liaison representative of the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) to the World Health Organization (WHO). He is developer of physics web-based instructional modules for the RSNA and Editor of IPEM’s Nuclear Medicine web-based instructional modules. His academic accomplishments in the area of quantitative PET imaging have been well recognized by his peers and by the medical imaging community at large since he is a recipient of many awards and distinctions among which the prestigious 2003 Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award given by the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee of the IEEE, the 2004 Mark Tetalman Memorial Award given by the Society of Nuclear Medicine, the 2007 Young Scientist Prize in Biological Physics given by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), the prestigious (100’000$) 2010 kuwait Prize of Applied sciences (known as the Middle Eastern Nobel Prize) given by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) for "outstanding accomplishments in Biomedical technology", the 2013 John S. Laughlin Young Scientist Award given by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the 2013 Vikram Sarabhai Oration Award given by the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India (SNMI), the 2015 Sir Godfrey Hounsfield Award given by the British Institute of Radiology (BIR), the 2017 IBA-Europhysics Prize given by the European Physical Society (EPS) and the 2019 Khwarizmi International Award given by the Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST). Prof. Zaidi has been an invited speaker of over 160 keynote lectures and talks at an International level, has authored over 265 peer-reviewed articles in prominent journals and is the editor of four textbooks..
Title of the keynote speech
Innovations in multimodality imaging in the era of precision medicine
Monji Kherallah is Professor was born in Sfax, Tunisia, in 1963. He received the Ing. Diploma degree, the Ph.D. and HU in electrical engineering, respectively in 1989, 2008 and 2012, from University of Sfax (ENIS). For fourteen years ago, he was an engineer in Biotechnology Center of Sfax.
Now he is a professor in Faculty of Science of Sfax and member in Research Group of Intelligent Machines: REGIM-Lab. He has more than 70 papers, including journal papers and book chapters.
His contribution also includes some international project as DAAD project from April 2007 to March 2010 and EOLES Tempus project from September 2012 to 2015. He is feudatory of professional master of Metrology and Instrumentation: MPMI created on 2015/2016 in Faculty of Sciences of Sfax. His teaching skills are around these themes: Analog Electronics, Digital Electronics, Power Electronics, Industrial Maintenance, Sensors and industrial Instrumentation, Pattern Recognition, Conflict Management, Business negotiation techniques. He is a member of IEEE and IEEE AESS Tunisia Chapter Chair, 2010 and 2011. He is reviewer of several international journals
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Title of the keynote speech
Artificial Intelligence vs. Deep Learning Process
Abdeldjalil Ouahabi is Professor (from 1995) and Project leader of Signal-Image at Polytech Tours,
France, where he was also Deputy Director in charge of international relations.
In 1983, Abdeldjalil OUAHABI received his Ph.D. degree in Automatic-Control and Signal
Processing, from INP Grenoble (France) and in 1992, he received the State Doctorat
(Doctorat d’état) degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from jointly INP
Grenoble (France) and USTHB (Algiers). His research interests include image and signal
processing, biomedical engineering and embedded systems. He has a strong interest in sampling
theories multiresolution algorithms, optimal filtering, spectral analysis, wavelets, and the use
of fractals for signal and image processing. Prof. Abdeldjalil Ouahabi is the author of over 170
published papers in these areas and he was the general chairman of several international conferences
including ICSS’94, Sidi-Fredj, Algiers, Sept. 1994 and the Club EEA Congress, Tours (France), May 2009.
He is the Guest Editor of several scientific journals including “ Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal
Processing” Journal. Springer and books (Iste-Wiley, Springer and Hermes-Lavoisier).
He has a strong reviewing and consulting activities with more than 50 journals (mostly
IEEE) and some International Organizations, Companies and Ministries including EU, UNESCO,
Alcatel-Lucent, Sagem, GE, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the Ministry of
Foreign and European Affairs of France, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research of Algeria …
Prof. Abdeldjalil Ouahabi obtained many awards including the best paper from the IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society (1999) and recently (2013), he obtained the title of “Distinguished Visiting Professor” from Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA..
Title of the keynote speech
Advances in intelligent signal and image processing
Jalel Ben Othman is professor;
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 is currently in steering committee of IEEE Transaction on
Mobile computing (IEEE TMC), an editorial board member of several journals (IEEE Networks, IEEE COMML,
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 where he did several tours all around the world and he has been appointed as a IEEE VTS distinguished
lecturer since July 2019. He is member of IEEE technical services board since 2016..
Title of the keynote speech
Threats and solutions for next generation connected vehicles to cyberspace
