Workshop on Sensors and Wireless Networks

US / Morocco Workshop on Sensors and Wireless Network for Smart Cities

January 5-7, 2016 Rabat, Morocco

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Workshop’s Background and Objectives Background More than 50% of the world population lives in urban areas, and there is a need to make cities smart and efficient. Developing smart cities is a global challenge and therefore needs global perspectives. It is therefore worthwhile to bring scholars from different countries together to discuss challenges in smart city development, brainstorm possible approaches, and share experiences.

Recent technical achievements in sensors and controls integrated with active systems can contribute to the ability to manage our built environment and tailor it to our preferences, while still achieving optimal operation, energy conservation, sustainability and resiliency. With the use of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and advanced information and systems management tools, our cities can move toward the concept of smart cities. A smart city behaves as a CyberPhysical System (CPS) that deeply integrates sensing, computation, communication, and control.

However, implementations of smart CPSs that are reliable and autonomous face many challenges from different perspectives, as future CPSs will be composed of heterogeneous systems. From a sensor and wireless network point of view, designing reliable smart systems that provide predictable operation and ensure efficient and stable operation presents a significant challenge.

These smart systems will be include a large number of heterogeneous sensors, and the processing of the resulting real-time data presents challenges.

These challenges are interdisciplinary and addressing them will require expertise from different fields.

The workshop will include concept papers that will be presented by US and Moroccan researchers.

Discussions in breakout sessions will be an important part of the workshop.

Technical Areas § The workshop will address various

research directions in the following interdisciplinary topics: Sensor and Wireless

Workshop co-chairmen Driss Benhaddou Engineering Technology Dept.

University of Houston (USA)

applications in the Smart Grid applications in Smart Transportation Networks § Sensor and Wireless applications in Agriculture and Water § Sensor and Wireless applications in Smart Buildings § Best Practices in Education Objectives of the Workshop The workshop aims to foster collaboration between the US and Morocco in the area of future smart cities, specifically with regard to research needs in sensors and wireless networking and computing that will enable smart cities. The workshop will address the following specific objectives: 1. Produce a research agenda in sensors and wireless networks that addresses challenges in smart cities.

2. Foster collaboration between US and Moroccan scientists and engineers in the areas of Cyber Physical Systems, and applications of relevance to smart cities including renewable energy, transportation and agriculture.

3. Initiate a discussion of best practices in education between US and Moroccan faculty with the purpose of improving the university educational experience especially for undergraduates in engineering and computing.

Participation The workshop is open to faculty and researchers, and students from the local universities are encouraged to participate. Talks will be by invitation of the organizers.

Student Posters Graduate students will have the opportunity to present their work in poster sessions, and to receive feedback on their work from senior attendees.

Interested students need to register online at www.uh.edu/smartcities.

Social Activities Visits to Rabat, a city with a rich ancient history.

Tours to the Bengrir Green City and Research Centers.

Tarek El-Ghazawi ECE Department The George Washington University (USA)

Mohamed Essaaidi ENSIAS Mohamed V University (Morocco)

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Program Day 1: January 5, 2015 7.45 - 8:30 AM Workshop registration 7.45 - 8:30 AM Breakfast Session 1- Opening Session 9:00– 10:00 AM - Welcome remarks from workshop Chairs - Welcome remarks from dignitaries: = President of Mohammed V University of Rabat. = H.E. Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Executives training - Introductory remarks by Dr. Samir El-Ghazaly, Division Director, ECCS, US National Science Foundation (NSF), USA. - Keynote talk – Prof. Sanjay Raman, Virginia Tech, USA. Development of an Urban Living Laboratory in the National Capital Region: Convergence of Infrastructure, Networks, Data and Policy Break 10:00-10:15 AM Introductions Session 2- Enabling Technologies for Smart Cities Session Chairs: Sajal Das, Missouri University of S&T and Mounir Ghogho, UIR, Rabat

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11:55 – 12:20 PM

Lunch 12:20 – 1:20 PM

Presentation 1 (P1): Dr. Sajal Das, Missouri Univ. of S&T, USA Smart Service Systems and Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructures with Human in the Loop: Challenges and Opportunities P2. Mounir Ghogho, International University of Rabat, Morocco 5G for Smarter Cities P3. Prof. Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA High-End Computing and Smart Cities P4. Dr. Mustapha Benjilali, INPT, Morocco Multihop Cooperation For D2D Applications in Smart Cities: PHY Perspective P5. Dr. Aawatif Hayar, Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco IEEE Smart Cities Initiative: Casablanca Interaction time during lunch

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P6. Jürgen Becker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Adaptively and HPC in Heterogeneous Multi-Core Systems 1:45 – 2:10 PM P7. Dr. Sejun Song, University of Missouri Kansas City, USA KC- IEEE Smart Cities Initiative: Novel Communication Methods and Applications to Enhance the Safety of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) and Drivers for Smart and Connected Cities 2:10 – 2:30 PM P8. Dr. Abdeloiuahid Lyhyaoui, ENSA, Tangier, Morocco The Impact of IT on the Development of Tangier as a Smart City 2:30 – 2:45 PM Discussion on Enabling Technologies Session 3- Smart Buildings Session Chairs: Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia and Mohamed Bakhouya, UIR, Rabat

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P9. Dr. Mohamed Bakhouya, UIR, Rabat, Morocco Context Aware WSNs for Smart Buildings

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3:10 – 3:35 PM 3:35 – 3:50 PM 3:50– 4:15 PM 4:15– 4:40 PM 4:40– 5:05 PM 5:05-5:20 PM 5:20-5:30 PM

P10. Dr. Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia. USA Smart Sensing and Control for More Energy Efficient Homes Break: Networking & Tea/Coffee P11. Dr. Alberto Cerpa, University of California-Merced, USA The Next Generation of Smart HVAC Control for Commercial Buildings P12. Dr. Driss Benhaddou, University of Houston, USA Smart Buildings as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in Smart Cities P13. Dr. Mohammed Erradi, ENSIAS, Rabat, Morocco Smart Diagnosis Through a Collaborative Distributed e-Health Platform Discussion on Smart Buildings Adjourn- Day summary and notes on next day’s plan

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6:00-10:00 PM Dinner in Old City

Day 2: January 6, 2015 8:00 – 8:45 AM Registration & Breakfast Session 4- Smart Transportation Session Chairs: Hani Mahmassani, Northwestern University & Mohammed Boulmalf, UIR, Rabat

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8:45 – 9:10 AM

P14. Dr. Hani Mahmassani, Northwestern University, USA How to Get There from Here: Fundamental Research Opportunities in Autonomous Vehicles, Connected Travelers and the Internet of Things P15. Dr. Mohammed Boulmalf, UIR, Rabat, Morocco VANETs: Connected Vehicles – Challenges and Opportunities P16. Dr. Yannis Paschalidis, Boston University, USA Sensor Data and Analytics Enabling Smarter Cities Break: Networking & Tea/Coffee P17. Dr. Ala Al-Fuqaha, Western Michigan University, USA Crowdsourcing Apps for More Livable Communities P18. Dr. Ghassane Aniba, EMI Rabat, Morocco Energy Efficiency in Transport: Smart Management of the Road Traffic in the Rabat-Salé-Témara Agglomeration P19. Dr. Mohammed Benkhalifa, Faculty of Science, Rabat, Morocco Big Data Mining For Smart Cities: Turning Challenges into Opportunities

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Discussion Smart Transportation

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Session 5Smart Agriculture & Water Session Chairs: Alan Michelson, University of Colorado & Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui, ENSA, Tangier11:45 AM – 12:05 PM 12:05 – 12:30 AM

P20. Dr. Alan Michelson, University of Colorado, USA Wireless Water Sensor Networks for the Coupled Food, Energy and Water (FEW) Systems of Smart Cities

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P21. Dr. Mostafa Ezziyyani, FST, Tangier, Morocco Flood Management System

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Lunch 12:30 – 1:30 PM

Interaction time during lunch

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P22. Dr. Sejun Song, Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City (KC), USA KC Experience: Water System / OR

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Dr. Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine, USA IoT and smart community water infrastructure P23. Dr. Hassan Berbia, ENSIAS, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco Smart Agriculture System P24. Dr. Amine Berqia, ENSIAS, Rabat, Morocco New Technologies and Smart Cities P25. Dr. Chaker El Amrani, FST, Tangier, Morocco Early Warning System of Disasters for Smart Cities

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Discussion on Agriculture and Water

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Break and teaming for break-out sessions

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Four breakout sessions on the topics of the sessions 2, 3, 4 and 5.

4:45 – 5:45 PM Visit to Challah in Rabat followed by Dinner

This visit is sponsored by the Moroccan-American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (Fulbright Office in Morocco).

Day 3: January 7, 2015 8:00 – 9:00 AM Breakfast Session 6- Education & Collaborations Session Chairs: Eyad Abed, US NSF & Abdelhak Mouradi, Ministry of Higher Education, Morocco

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P26. Dr. Eyad Abed, NSF, USA P27. Dr. Abdelhak Mouradi, Ministry of Higher Education, Morocco P28. Dr. Usha Varshney, NSF, USA P29. Dr. Dalal Najib, National Academy of Science, USA Break breakout sessions Reporting on breakout sessions and closing remarks

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Lunch 12:30 – 1:30 PM

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Visit to the Green City: Transportation will be arranged to take the participants from Rabat to the Green City of Bengrir.

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Organizers & Speakers NSF Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS Samir M. El-Ghazaly National Science Foundation, USA. selghaza@nsf.gov

Samir M. El-Ghazaly currently serves as the Director of the Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) at the National Science Foundation. He is also a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Arkansas.

Dr. El-Ghazaly received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1988 from The University of Texas at Austin. After graduation, he joined Arizona State University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, where he became Associate Professor in 1993 and Professor in 1998. From August 2002 to July 2007, he was with The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, as Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

He trained and worked at several universities and research centers including Cairo University; the Centre Hyperfrequences et Semiconducteurs at UniversitĂŠ de Lille I in France; NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California; CST-Motorola, Inc.; IEMN, UniversitĂŠ de Lille, France; and the Swiss Federal Research Institute (ETH). His research interests include nanotechnology devices, microwave and millimeter-wave semiconductor devices and circuits, semiconductor device simulations, electromagnetics, antennas, and numerical techniques applied to monolithic microwave integrated circuits.

Dr. El-Ghazaly is a Fellow of IEEE and has served on multiple committees and editorial boards: Chairman of Commissions A and D of the US National Committee of URSI. He was an elected member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Society (2001-1013).

Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters.

Chairman of MTT-15 Committee on Field Theory.

General Chairman of the IEEE MTT-S 2001 International Microwave Symposium, which was held in Phoenix, Arizona, May 2001.

Chairman of the IEEE MTT-S Publications Committee (2004-2008).

2010 President of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.

Chair of the IEEE-Technical Activities Board's Periodicals Committee (2012 & 2013).

Vice Chair of the IEEE Publications Services and Products Board (2013).

Dr. El-Ghazaly currently serves as the Chair of the IEEE-TAB Periodical Review and Advisory Committee (PRAC) and Vice Chair of the IEEE MTT-S Awards Committee (2013 to date)..

Workshop Co-Chairmen Driss Benhaddou University of Houston, USA. dbenhaddou@uh.edu

Smart Buildings as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) In Smart Cities Driss Benhaddou is a Fulbright scholar and an Associate Professor with the University of Houston (UH), where he is actively involved in optical networking, wireless sensor networks, and smart system development. In particular he is developing research in the application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in distributed solar energy in smart grid and smart cities.

Prior to joining UH, he was a senior technical staff member at Lambda Optical Systems Inc., where he played a key role in protocol development and systems integration activities. In particular, he led system test/integration activities for the Advanced Technology Demonstration Network (ATDNet) testbed project and worked closely with the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Laboratory for Telecommunication Sciences (LTS). During his earlier tenure at Sprint, he also implemented an extensive broadband testbed for vendor equipment certification and research/development activities. He holds two doctoral (Ph.D.) degrees, one in optoelectronics from the University of Montpellier II, France, and the second one from the University of Missouri in computer networks and telecommunications. In addition, he is spearheading the development of new state-of-the-art wireless and optical networking research laboratories within at the University of Houston

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(http://www.tech.uh.edu/won and http://www.tech.uh.edu/attlab).

Tarek El-Ghazawi George Washington University, USA. tarek@gwu.edu

High-end computing and smart cities

Mohamed Essaaidi ENSIAS, Mohammed V University, Morocco. m.essaaidi@ensias.ma

Smart Cities Research Challenges & Opportunities

Tarek El-Ghazawi is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The George Washington University, where he leads the university-wide Strategic Academic Program in High-Performance Computing. He is the founding director of The GW Institute for Massively Parallel Applications and Computing Technologies (IMPACT) and a founding Co-Director of the NSF Industry/University Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC). El-Ghazawi’s research interests include high-performance computing, computer architectures, reconfigurable, embedded computing and computer vision. He is one of the principal co-authors of the UPC parallel programming language and the first author of the UPC book from John Wiley and Sons.

He has received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from New Mexico State University in 1988. El-Ghazawi has published close to 250 refereed research publications in this area.

Mohamed Essaaidi has been the Dean of National College of Information Technology (ENSIAS) of Mohammed 5th University, Rabat, Morocco since December 2011 and he was a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco from 1993 till 2011. He is the founder and past Chairman of the IEEE Morocco Section. He is also a member of International Federation of Green ICT. He has authored and co-authored 5 books and more than 120 papers in international refereed journals and conferences in the field of Electrical, Information and Communication Technologies. He has 10 patents on the same technologies.

He was also a member of the IEEE 802.16 Sponsor Ballot Pool of IEEE Standard Association that defined the technical specifications for WiMAX. Moreover, he has supervised several Ph D and Masters Theses and has been the principal investigator and the project manager for several international research projects with US, Canada, Spain, Finland, Italy, India, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Egypt and Tunisia.

Enabling Technologies For Smart Cities Sajal Das Missouri University of S&T, USA. sdas@mst.edu

Smart Service Systems and Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructures with Human in the Loop: Challenges and Opportunities

Mounir Ghogho

Title: 5G for Smarter Cities

Sajal K. Das is the Chair of Computer Science Department and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla.

During 2008-2011, he served the NSF as a Program Director in the CISE/CNS Division. Prior to 2013, he was a University Distinguished Scholar Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and founding director of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMan) at the University of Texas at Arlington. In 2012 Dr. Das was selected as E.T.S. Walton Fellow by the Science Foundation of Ireland. He is frequently invited as a keynote speaker at international conferences and workshops, and has visited numerous universities worldwide for collaborative research and invited seminars.

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International University of Rabat (UIR), Morocco. mounir.ghogho@uir.ac. ma

Mounir Ghogho received the MSc degree in 1993 and the PhD degree in 1997 from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse. After being a Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde (Scotland), he joined in December 2001 the University of Leeds (England), where he currently holds a Chair in Signal Processing (SP) and Communications. Since 2010, he has also been affiliated with the International University of Rabat where he is currently a Scientific Adviser to the President and the ICT Research Director. He was awarded the UK Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship in September 2000.

He is a recipient of the 2013 IBM Faculty award. He serves/served as Associate Editor of the IEEE SP magazine, the IEEE Transactions on SP, the IEEE SP Letters, and the Elsevier Digital SP journal. He is/was an elected member of the IEEE SP Society SAM, SPCOM and SPTM Technical Committees. He is the General Chair of IEEE SPAWC 2010, EUSIPCO 2013, and IEEE WCNC 2019. His research interests are in the areas of signal processing and communication networks, in which he has published over 260 journal and conference papers. He is the EURASIP Liaison in Morocco.

Mustapha Benjillali

Multihop Cooperation for D2D Applications in Smart Cities: PHY Perspective

INPT, Rabat, Morocco. benjillali@ieee.org

Mustapha Benjillali (S’06, M’09, SM’14) graduated as a mobile communications engineer from INPT, Rabat, Morocco, in 2003. He received the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications from INRS, Montreal, Canada, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Electrical Engineering Program, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, KSA. He is now an Associate Professor of Wireless Communications with the Communication Systems Department at INPT, Rabat, Morocco. His current research interests are in the area of 5G wireless and mobile communications, including Cooperative, Cognitive, and Flexible Radio Networks, Green Wireless Systems, and Intelligent Wireless Solutions for Smart Cities. His focus is on the design of 5G physical and link layers, closed-form mathematical performance analysis, energy-efficiency, and resource allocation strategies. Prof. Benjillali is an IEEE Senior Member, and an IBM Academic Initiative Member.

He is also a member of IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Green ICT Community, IEEE Smart Cities Community, and IEEE Young Professionals. He serves as a reviewer for many leading international journals, and he is a TPC member in many major international conferences.

He is a co-recipient of the 2015 Best Paper Award of the International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM), a co-recipient of the 2010 Best Paper Award of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), a recipient of the KAUST Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009-2010), the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Fonds de Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT) (2009-2011), the prestigious Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS D) from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (2007-2009), the FQRNT Doctoral Research Scholarship (2007-2009), the INRS Doctoral Research Scholarship (2005-2009), the INRS Masters Research Scholarship (2003-2005), the MELS Qubec Exemption from International Tuition Fees (20032005), and the ”Grand admis” title in the National Entrance Exam (CNC) in 2000.

Aawatif Hayar Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco. aahayar@gmail.com

IEEE Smart Cities Initiative: Casablanca Aawatif Hayar received the “Agrégation Génie Electrique” from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan in 1992. She received the “Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies” in Signal processing Image and Communications and the degree of Engineer in Communications Systems and Networks from ENSEEIHT de

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Toulouse in 1997. She received with honors the Ph.D. degree in Signal Processing and Communications from Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse in 2001. She was a research and teaching associate in the mobile communications department at EURECOM till December 2010. Aawatif Hayar is currently with GREENTIC organization as General Secretary and Expert in Green ICT Field. She is also Associate Professor at the University Hassan II Casablanca in Morocco. Her research interests focus on Mobile and Wireless Communications (GSM, WCDMA, Beyond 3G, LTE), Cognitive and Green Radio and include array of UWB based Channel Division Multiple Access Technique (ChDMA), localization algorithms, UWB channel measurements, modeling and characterization, blind sensing algorithms, centralized and distributed radio resource and power allocation strategies for Software Defined and Cognitive Green Radio. Aawatif Hayar has a patent on “Process for sensing vacant bands over the spectrum bandwidth and apparatus for performing the same based on sub space and distributions analysis”.

Jürgen Becker Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. juergen.becker@kit.edu

Adaptively and HPC in Heterogeneous Multi-Core Systems

Sejun Song University of Missouri KC, USA. songsej@umkc.edu

Kansas City- IEEE Smart Cities Initiative: Novel Communication Methods and Applications to Enhance the Safety of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) and Drivers for Smart and Connected Cities

Juergen Becker received the Diploma degree in 1992, and his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) degree in 1997, both at Kaiserslautern University, Germany. His research work focused on application development environments for reconfigurable accelerators and included hardware/software codesign, parallelizing compilers, customized computing, and high-level synthesis. He has been local administrator for the European Design Project EUROCHIP in 1993/95. In 1997 Dr. Becker joined the Institute of Microelectronic Systems at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, as assistant professor, where he taught CAD algorithms for VLSI design. He did research in Systems-on-Chip (SoC) architectures and reconfigurable technologies for mobile communication systems, including the development of corresponding IPbased CAD methods.

Since 2001 Juergen Becker is professor for embedded electronic systems at the Institut fuer Technik der Informationsverarbeitung (ITIV) at the University of Karlsruhe. He gives lectures in digital design (undergraduate), in CAD algorithms for high-level synthesis and VLSI design, hardware/software codesign, as well as in bus interfaces and protocols. His actual research is focused on industrial-driven SoCs with emphasis on adaptive embedded systems, e.g. dynamically reconfigurable hardware architectures. This includes corresponding hardware/software codesign and co-synthesis techniques from high-level specifications, as well as low power SoC optimization. Prof. Becker is co-director of the Embedded Systems and Sensors Engineering (ESS) group at the Computer Science Research Center (FZI) .

He is author and co-author of more than 400 scientific papers (+ more than 10 patents), published in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences and active in several technical program and steering committees of international conferences and workshops. He is a Member of the german GI and Senior Member of the IEEE. Prof. Becker is chair of the GI/ITG Technical Committee of 'Architekturen fuer hochintegrierte Schaltungen' and is member of "Editorial Board of IEEE Transaction on Computers" and "Executive Committee der Deutschen Sektion des IEEE" . Prof. Becker started in October 2004 as Vice President of Universität Karlsruhe (TH) responsible for the area Studies and Teaching, respectively since October 2009 to March 2012 as Chief Higher Education Officer (CHEO) of the KIT. Since 2012 on he serves as Secretary General of CLUSTER , an association of 12 leading technical universities in Europe. In 2013 Prof. Becker received the Honorary Doctor award (Dr. h. c.) from Technical University Budapest (Hungary).

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Sejun Song is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Missouri - Kansas City (UMKC). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He held positions at the Texas A&M University, College Station (TAMU), Cisco Systems, and Honeywell Research Lab. He has been a fellow of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Visiting Faculty Research Program (AFRL-VFRP), Cisco Systems, and Korea Telecom - Advance Institute of Technology (KT-AIT).

Song and his research team conduct research in the area of trustworthy computing software and systems including resilient network and system management, network softwareisation, cloud and fog computing, and Internet of Things (IoT). He is a member of IEEE Smart Cities Kansas City initiatives and Global City Teams Challenge. He has received several best research video/paper awards from Mobisys 2014, ICCCN 2014, and CIEC 2013. His research has been funded by several agencies including NSF, AFOSR, Cisco Systems, NASA, NIH, CDC, TAMU, KT Research, and ETRI. Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui ENSA, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tangier, Morocco. lyhyaoui@gmail.com

The impact of IT in the development of Tangier as a Smart City Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui received the M.S. degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree from Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain, in 1999. Currently he is a Professor in the Electrical and Industrial Engineering Department, and Director of the Innovative Technologies Laboratory, LTI, at the National School of Applied Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University.

His research interests include intelligent Systems, neural networks, machine learning, and Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

From 2001 to 2003, he has been a visiting professor at Carlos III University, in Signal Theory and Communications Department. In 2010 and 2011 he was an invited professor at LIPN Laboratory, Paris 13 University.

His Specific research areas of current interest include the participation in the development of a Sustainable Mobility Plan, and WSN for smart cities.

Smart Buildings Mohamed Bakhouya International University of Rabat (UIR), Morocco mohamed.bakhouya@u ir.ac.ma

Context-Aware WSNs for Energy-Efficient Buildings Mohamed Bakhouya is an associate professor at International University of Rabat. He obtained his HDR from UHA-France in 2013 and his PhD from UTBM-France in 2005. He has more than five years experiences in participating and working in sponsored ICT projects. He was PI of Aalto starting grant at Aalto University-Finland (2011-2013), Co-PI (UTBM side) of two European projects ASSET (Advanced Safety and Driver Support in Efficient Road Transport, FP7-SST, 2008-2011, and TELEFOT (Field Operational Tests of Aftermarket and Nomadic Devises in Vehicles, FP7-ICT, 2008-2012. He spent two years as a research scientist in US at George Washington University, HPC laboratory participating and working in sponsored projects, mainly UPC (Unified Parallel C) and NSF Center of Highperformance and REConfigurable Computing. He is also a member (UTBM side) of EU EACEA Erasmus Mundus project TARGET I/II (Transfer of Appropriate Requirements for Global Education and Technology), 2011-2015. He is currently a PI of CASANET project (CNRST, 2015-2017) and Co-PI of SELFSERV project funded by the South Initiatives programme (VLIRUOS, 2016-2018). He was a reviewer of research project for Agence Nationale de la Recherche,

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(France, 2011), Ministero dell' Istruzione, dell' Università e della Ricerca (Italy, 2012), and currently for European Commission-FP7 (2013-2015). He is EiC of IJARAS journal and also serves as a guest editor of a number of international journals, ACM Trans. on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Product Development Journal, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, FGCS, and MICRO. He has published more than 100 papers in international journals, books, and conferences. He published a book on Geopositioning and Mobility. His h-index is 14 (according to Google-Scholar). His research interests include various aspects on the design, validation, and implementation of distributed and adaptive systems, architectures, and protocols. He is member of IEEE and ACM. Kamin Whitehouse University of Virginia, USA whitehouse@virginia.e du

Smart Sensing and Control for More Energy Efficient Homes

Alberto Cerpa University of California-Merced acerpa@andes.ucmerce d.edu

The Next Generation of Smart HVAC Control for Commercial Buildings

Kamin Whitehouse works in the areas of Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things, with a focus on intelligent buildings. He is a Commonwealth Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia, is a Siebel scholar, and was awarded a NSF CAREER award. He earned his BA and BS from Rutgers University and his MS and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.

Smart and connected home technology allows people to improve the comfort and convenience of their homes, but automatically reducing energy usage is still an important challenge. Effective energy reduction requires of humans, what they are doing, and how they respond to device autonomy and energy feedback. In this talk, I’ll discuss new technologies and opportunities for monitoring and control in US home, including space heating and cooling, water heating, and lighting.

Alberto Cerpa is an Associate Professor and was one of the three founding faculties of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science program in the School of Engineering at UC Merced when he joined in 2005. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from UCLA (2005), working under the supervision of Deborah Estrin.

He also received a M.Sc. in Computer Science from USC (2000) under guidance of Deborah Estrin, and a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from USC (1998) under guidance of Victor O. K. Li. Alberto received his undergraduate degree (Engineer) in Electrical Engineering from Buenos Aires Institute of Technology, in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1995), working under supervision of Osvaldo Micheloud. While in graduate school, he worked as a protocol design consultant (together with Jeremy Elson) for Akamai and NetApp (Peter Danzig), as well as Sun Research Labs (Charles Perkins) and Xerox (Cheryl Bhence). His interests lie broadly in the computer networking and distributed systems areas, with recent focus in systems research in wireless sensor networks and cyber-physical systems. Dr. Cerpa is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2013). His current work is contributing to California’s efforts to a) reduce energy consumption in buildings while improving comfort of humans using them; b) develop novel solar radiation sensors that can be used to improve solar energy forecasting to increase solar power renewable market penetration; and c) reduce water usage for irrigation and agricultural applications by using novel sensing and control irrigation systems. His work has been funded by multiple different federal and state agencies, including NSF, DOE, CEC, and CITRIS. He has led several multi-investigator, multi-disciplinary research programs at UC Merced since 2005. He has been active in energy and water applications both regionally and nationally.

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Mohammed Erradi ENSIAS, Mohammed V University, Rabat mohamed.erradi@gmai l.com

Smart Diagnosis Through a Collaborative Distributed e-Health Platform Mohammed Erradi has been a professor in Computer Science since 1986.

He has been leading the Networking and Distributed Systems Research Group since 1994 at ENSIAS (Ecole Nationale d’Informatique et d’Analyse des Systèmes) of Mohammed V University (Rabat Morocco). Before joining ENSIAS, he has been affiliated with the University of Sherbrooke and the University of Quebec in Canada. His recent main research interests include Communication Software Engineering, Distributed Collaborative Applications, Security policies composition, Formal description techniques, Reflection and Meta-level Architectures. He obtained his Engineer degree from INSEA (Rabat), his MSc. and Ph.D. from University of Montreal in the area of Communicating Software Engineering under Professor Gregor Von Bochmann. He is leading, at the present time, many research projects in collaboration with national and international partners. He is currently the Principal Investigator of a number of research projects grants. Professor Erradi has published more than 100 papers in international conferences and journals. He has organized and chaired many international scientific events (METISs, NETYS) and served as PC member for many international conferences

Smart Transportation Hani Mahmassani Northwestern University, USA masmah@northwestern .edu

How to Get There from Here: Fundamental Research Opportunities in Autonomous Vehicles, Connected Travelers and the Internet of Things

Mohammed Boulmalf UIR, Rabat, Morocco mohammed.boulmalf@ uir.ac.ma

VANETs: Connected Vehicles – Challenges and Opportunities

Yannis Paschalidis

Sensor Data and Analytics Enabling Smarter Cities

Hani Mahmassani is a Full Professor and William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation; Director, Northwestern University Transportation Center; Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science; Professor (courtesy), Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management Professor Mahmassani specializes in multimodal transportation systems analysis, planning and operations, dynamic network modeling and optimization, transit network planning and design, dynamics of user behavior and telematics, telecommunication-transportation interactions, large-scale human infrastructure systems, and realtime operation of logistics and distribution systems.

Mohammed Boulmalf received his B.Eng. degree in Communications from National Institute of Telecommunications ”INPT” in 1987, Rabat, Morocco.

He worked for 5 years as a Network Engineer at ONCF Company at Rabat Morocco. In August 1992, Boulmalf moved to Canada to pursue his graduate studies at the National Institute for Scientific Research, Montreal, Canada. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees both in Wireless Communications and Networking in 1994 and 2001, respectively. From September 1994 to December 1998 he was with INRS-Telecom as a Radio Communications Research Engineer. In January 1999, he joined ETS, Quebec University where he worked as a Lecturer. In September for the same year, Boulmalf moved to Microcell Telecommunications, GSM Operator in Canada, where he worked as a Senior Network Engineer. From 2000 to 2002, he worked as a Principal Engineer at the Multi-vendor Integration Department at Ericsson, Montreal, Canada. In February 2002, he joined the College of Information Technology at the United Arab Emirates University, Abu Dhabi – Al-Ain, where he worked as an Assistant Professor till July 2007. In August 2007, he moved to the same position at the School of Science & Engineering at Al Akhawayn University in Morocco where he is currently Associate Professor of Computer Science. He is the author/co-author of about 50 articles in refereed journals and conferences in the areas of wireless networking and communications, mobile computing, and network security.

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Boston University, USA yannisp@bu.edu

Ala Al-Fuqaha Western Michigan University, USA Ala.alfuqaha@wmich.edu

Ghassane Aniba EMI, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco ghassane@emi.ac.ma

Yannis Paschalidis is a Professor in the College of Engineering at Boston University with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Division of Systems Engineering. He is a Co-Director of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE).

He completed his graduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) receiving an MS (1993) and a PhD (1996) degree, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In September 1996 he joined Boston University where he has been ever since. He has held visiting appointments with MIT, and the Columbia University Business School. His current research interests lie in the fields systems and control, networking, applied probability, optimization, operations research, computational biology, and bioinformatics. Specific applications of interest include: communication and sensor networks, protein docking, manufacturing systems, and supply chains.

His work on communication networks has been recognized with a CAREER award (2000) from the National Science Foundation and the second prize in the 1997 George E. Nicholson paper competition by INFORMS. He was an invited participant at the 2002 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, organized by the National Academy of Engineering. He has served in the program committees of several conferences, including, the INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the IEEE INFOCOM. He is a senior member of the IEEE and an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and the Operations Research Letters.

Crowdsourcing Apps for More Livable Communities Ala Al-Fuqaha he is a Professor and director of NEST Research Lab at the Computer Science Department of Western Michigan University. Dr. Al-Fuqaha served as the Principal Investigator or Co-PI on multiple research projects funded by NSF, Qatar Foundation, Cisco, Boeing, AVL, Stryker, Wolverine,Traumasoft, and Western Michigan University. His research grant activities and collaborative efforts have culminated in $2.62 million funding.

Chief among these research activities is an international collaborative effort with Qatar University and Purdue University to study the interplay between safety, security and performance in vehicular networks. Another chief research activity is a NSF funded collaborative effort with the City University of New York and the University of Nebraska Lincoln on bio-socially inspired techniques for enhanced spectrum access in cognitive radio networks.

His research interests include Wireless Vehicular Networks (VANETs), cooperation and spectrum access etiquettes in cognitive radio networks, smart services in support of the Internet of Things, management and planning of software defined networks (SDN), intelligent services for the blind and the visually impaired, QoS routing in optical and wireless networks, and performance analysis and evaluation of high-speed computer and telecommunication networks. In 2014, he was the recipient of the outstanding researcher award at the college of Engineering and Applied Sciences of Western Michigan University.

Energy Efficiency in Transport: Smart Management of the Road Traffic in the Rabat-SaléTémara Agglomeration Ghassane Aniba (IEEE S’03–IEEE M’10) received the Ph.D degree in telecommunications from Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Energy, Materials and Telecommunications (INRS-EMT), Montreal, Canada, in 2010, and the Dipl.-Ing. degree in telecommunication engineering from the Institut National des Postes et Télécommunications (INPT), Rabat, Morocco, in 2002. In 2010, after a postdoctoral position at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KSA, he joined Ecole Mohammadia d’ingénieurs (EMI), Rabat, Morocco, where he is currently an Associate Professor in Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering. He was the chair of the cooperative techniques and relays session at the 20th International Conference on Telecommunications 2013. He is the principal coordinator of the two IRESEN Projects: MicroCSP project (2014-2017) within the InnoTherm

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III call for projects, and the SmartBus project (2016-2018). His current research interests include Smart Grids, traffic modelling in green cognitive networks, cooperative wireless networks and wireless sensor networks.

Mohammed Benkhalifa Faculty of Science, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco khalifamed9@gmail.co m

Big Data Mining For Smart Cities: Turning Challenges into Opportunities Mohammed Benkhalifa is full professor of computer sciences at the computer science department of the Faculty of Sciences in Rabat. He is director of intelligent systems research group, within Laboratory LRI (Computer Research Laboratory). He received his Doctorat d’Etat in computer sciences (co supervision Fulbright scholarship program with Louisiana State University, USA) in 2001 from the faculty of sciences, Rabat. He earned his Master's in computer sciences from the City University of New York, USA in 1992. He obtained his Analyst Engineer diploma in computer sciences from INSEA, Rabat in 1988. He is principal investigator for couple of research projects. He worked in Al Akhawayn University as visiting professor between 1995 and 2002. His research interests lie in the area of Data mining.

Specifically, he is interested in Text Mining, Web Mining and Sentiment Analysis.

Smart Agriculture & Water Alan Michelson University of Colorado, USA Alan.Mickelson@Color ado.EDU

Sejun Song University of Missouri KC, USA songsej@umkc.edu

Wireless Water Sensor Networks for the Coupled Food, Energy and Water (FEW) Systems of Smart Cities Alan Mickelson is with the Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder where he is also adjunct with the Mortenson Center for Engineering in Developing Communities (MCEDC) and holds a courtesy appointment on the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program (ITP). Alan joined the faculty at UCB in 1984 after a PhD at Caltech and PostDoctoral Fellowships in Armenian and Norway. Alan is actively engaged in research in optical materials, devices and sensors as well as problems in sustainable humanitarian engineering. Prof.

Mickelson is presently Chief Technology O_cer of Red Cloud Communication. Dr. Mickelson has published 2 textbooks, edited a research monograph and a conference proceeding and written 7 chapters in books. He has published more than 80 papers in the archival literature and more than 85 papers in reviewed conference proceedings.

Title: Novel Communication Methods and Applications to Enhance the Safety of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) and Drivers for Smart and Connected Cities Sejun Song is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Missouri - Kansas City (UMKC). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He held positions at the Texas A&M University, College Station (TAMU), Cisco Systems, and Honeywell Research Lab. He has been a fellow of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Visiting Faculty Research Program (AFRL-VFRP), Cisco Systems, and Korea Telecom Advance Institute of Technology (KT-AIT). Song and his research team conduct research in the area of trustworthy computing software and systems including resilient network and system management, network softwareisation, cloud and fog computing, and Internet of Things (IoT). He is a member of IEEE Smart Cities Kansas City initiatives and Global City Teams Challenge. He has received several best research video/paper awards from Mobisys 2014, ICCCN 2014, and

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CIEC 2013. His research has been funded by several agencies including NSF, AFOSR, Cisco Systems, NASA, NIH, CDC, TAMU, KT Research, and ETRI. Mostafa Ezziyyani Faculty of Science and Technology, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Morocco ezziyyani@gmail.com

Nalini Venkatasubramanian University of California, Irvine, USA nalini@ics.uci.edu

Hassane Berbia ENSIAS, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco h_berbia@yahoo.com

Flood Management System Mostafa Ezziyyani, received the “Licence en Informatique” degree, the “Diplôme de Cycle Supérieur en Informatique” degree and the PhD “Doctorat (1)” degree in Information System Engineering, respectively in 1994, 1996 and 1999 from Mahmmeed V University in Rabat, Morocco. Also, he received the second PhD degree “Doctorat (2)” in 2006, From Abdelmalek Essaadi University” in Distributed Systems and Web Technologies. In 2008 he receives a Researcher Professor Ability Grade. Now he is a professor of Computer Engineering and Information System in Faculty of Science and Technologies of Abdelmalek Essaadi University since 1996.

His research activities focus on the modelling databases and integration of heterogeneous systems (with the various developmennts to the knowledge base, the object BD, active BD, Big-Data, Web semantic, Security, DataCenter, Optimisation, Dataminig, Multi- System Agents, distributed systems and mediation). This research is at the crossroads of databases, artificial intelligence, Software Engineering and Programming.

Professor at computer Science Department, Member of La.S.I.T laboratory and MA laboratory, and responsible of the research direction Information Systems and Technologies IBDD-TC, he formed a research team that works around this theme and more particularly in the area of integration of heterogeneous information systems and Muti-Agents Systems using WSN as technology for communication.

IoT and smart community water infrastructure Nalini Venkatasubramanian is a Professor of Computer science at the University of California, Irvine. She is known for her work in effective management and utilization of resources in the evolving global information infrastructure. Her research interests are Networked and Distributed Systems, Internet technologies and Applications, Ubiquitous Computing and Urban Crisis Responses.

Born and raised in Bangalore, she received her Ph.D in Computer science from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1998. From 1991 to 1998, she was a member of technical staff and software designer engineer for Hewlett-Packard. In 1998, she joined the University of California, Irvine as an Assistant Professor of Computer science.

Smart Agriculture System Hassane Berbia, is an Associate Professor of ENSIAS College of Engineering of Mohammed V University in Rabat.

He is the coordinator of Embedded Systems Engineering program in ENSIAS. His research interests include embedded systems, Real Time Networks, Systems on Chip, Model Driven Engineering, System Engineering, RFID/NFC, Information Theory, Medical & Aero-spatial Systems, Precision Agriculture and Irrigation.

He has been the PI of several research projects and a supervisor of PhD theses covering these topics. He has also a dozen of patents in medical, Information theory, Agriculture, and Telecommunication.

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Amine Berqia ENSIAS, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco berqia@gmail.com

New Technologies and Smart Cities Amine Berqia is associate professor in University Med V Rabat, ENSIAS Engineering School, Morocco. He earned the B.Sc. and the M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from University Med V, Morocco. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Dijon, France. He was Assistant Professor at University of Geneva and Coordinator of the Swiss Virtual Campus Project VITELS from 2000 to 2003. Since 2007, Dr. Amine Berqia is serving as the Vice-president of EATIS, a Euro American research group on Telematics and Information System. Also, since 2013, he is serving as the President of the Electronic Next Generation Networks (e-NGN) research group for Africa and Middle-East Morocco section, which he cofounded. He is member of IEEE. He has served as chair or co-chair in several international conferences (ISDA’2015, iCEER 2013, NGNS´12, IEEE EDUCON 2012, NGNS'10, EATIS2007, NOTERE2007...). He is taking part of several international conference program committees. He published more than 50 papers in journals and conferences in the areas of Networks performance, New Generation of learning. In 2012, Dr. Amine Berqia was awarded by IEEE Education Society in recognition and appreciation for his valued services and contributions in Educon 2012. In 2013, Dr. Amine Berqia was awarded by iNEER Society in recognition and appreciation for his valued services and contributions in iCEER 2013.

Chaker El Amrani Early Warning System of Disasters for Smart Cities FST, Abdelmalek Chaker El Amrani is Doctor in Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Essaadi University, Simulation from the University of Liège, Belgium (2001). He worked at Tangier, Morocco Belgocontrol in Brussels on air traffic control software engineering. Then he c.elamrani@ieee.ma joined Abdelmalek Essaadi University in Morocco, and served from 2009 to 2014 as chair of the Computer Engineering Department. He is the NATO Partner Country Project Director of a real-time remote sensing initiative for early warning and mitigation of disasters and epidemics in Morocco. He lectures on distributed systems and conducts research on Big Data Mining and Environmental Information Systems.

Dr. El Amrani is an IEEE Senior member. He has contributed since 2004 to IEEE Morocco Section activities as an active volunteer. He is Research Collaborator at Bristol University and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the George Washington University.

Education & Collaborations Eyad H. Abed National Science Foundation, USA eabed@nsf.gov

Eyad H. Abed is a Program Director in the Energy, Power, Control and Networks (EPCN) Program in the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division at the U.S. National Science Foundation, and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has been with the University of Maryland since 1983, and on assignment at NSF since 2014. His research interests include system and control theory, especially nonlinear dynamics and control, and applications in electric power systems, communication networks, power electronics, aerospace systems, and social networks. During 2002-2008, he served as Director of the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland. During 2009-2012, he served as Dean of the College of Information Technology at the United Arab

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Emirates University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a recipient of several awards. He has been on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and the journal Nonlinear Dynamics. He served on the Board of Governors and the Executive Committee of the IEEE Control Systems Society, for which he was Vice President for Financial Activities during 20072009.

Usha Varshney National Science Foundation, USA uvarshne@nsf.gov

Dalal Najib Nactional Academies of Science dnajib@nas.edu

Usha Varshney is a Program Director for Electronics, Photonics and Magnetic Devices in the Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) at the National Science Foundation (NSF), managing the interdisciplinary science and engineering research thrust areas for spin electronics, micro and nanomagnetic devices and circuits, bioelectronics, molecular electronics MEMS/NEMS and sensors. From 2004 to 2008, she served as the Division Director of the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division. She joined the NSF in December 1997 as a Program Director. From October 2003 to June 2004, Dr. Varshney was a Legislative Fellow in the United States 108th Congress, and a ComSci Fellow in the Science and Technology Fellowship Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce. She had a leadership role in the passage of Senate Bill S.189 on Nanotechnology signed into law (PL 108-153) by President Bush on December 3, 2003, and in the organization of the bipartisan and bicameral "Congressional Nanotechnology Caucus" established by Senator Allen on April 1, 2004. From 1995 –1997, Dr. Varshney was Director of Research at American Research Corporation of Virginia, following her appointment as Senior Research Scientist and Research Scientist from 1987-1995. She has also held professional appointments at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Merrimac Magnetics, and Chronar Corporation.

Dr. Varshney is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She has also served as a member of the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS) Advisory Committee on Nanotechnology for the Commonwealth of Virginia. She is coeditor of three books and an inventor on seven patents, and has served on several editorial boards. Dr. Varshney has been the recipient of a number of honors and awards, while in industry and at NSF. International Activities at the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Dalal Najib is a senior program officer at the Development, Security and Cooperation (DSC) in the of Policy and Global Affairs (PGA) Division of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, working mainly on international development and capacity building through science and technology in developing countries. She is the program director for the Arab-American Frontiers program of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine at NAS in partnership with MENA based S&T institutions such as King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), The Research Council of Oman and the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research. She also currently manages the USAID-funded ISF program in partnership with the Indonesian Academy of Sciences to establish an Indonesian Science Fund (ISF) and build institutional capacity in grants management and review process.

Dalal also works on the PEER (Partnership for Enhanced engagement in Research) program where she oversees the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) and Central Asia regions portfolio. Dalal first joined the National Academies as a Mirzayan Science and Technology policy fellow at the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB). She holds a PhD in space physics and engineering from University of Michigan, under the NASA Earth and Space Sciences Fellowship (NESSF). She also completed a master's degree in public policy (MPP) from the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan with focus on Science and Technology policy in developing countries. Prior to that, Dalal received her undergraduate degree in aerospace and aeronautical engineering from Supaero (Toulouse, France). She is fluent in French, Arabic, English and Spanish.

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