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Biography
Dr. Mohamed Ibnkahla joined the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in 2015 as a Full Professor where he holds the Cisco Research Chair in Sensor Technology for the Internet of Things (IoT); and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)/Cisco Industrial Research Chair in Sensor Networks for IoT.
He obtained the Ph.D. degree and the Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches degree (HDR) from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INPT), Toulouse, France, in 1996 and 1998, respectively.
Prior to joining Carleton University, he has been a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, from 2000 to 2015.
Dr. Ibnkahla’s research interests include IoT, cybersecurity, Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, sentiment analysis, and Next-generation Wireless Networks.
Over the past 10 years, Dr. Ibnkahla has been conducting multi-disciplinary research projects designing, developing and deploying Internet of Things in several domains including smart homes, e-health, cybersecurity, smart grid and sustainable energy, public safety, smart logistics, intelligent transportation systems, environment monitoring, and smart cities.
Dr. Ibnkahla is currently the Director of the Sensor Systems and Internet of Things Research Laboratory at Carleton university which is equipped with a state-of-the-art IoT testbed and a user experience platform for IoT systems.
He published 6 books and more than 80 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters, 20 technical reports, 120 conference papers, and 4 invention disclosures.
In the past 5 years he gave more than 30 keynote talks and invited seminars. He received the Leopold Escande Medal, 1997, France, and the Premier’s Research Excellence Award, Canada, 2001. He is the joint holder of 5 Best Paper Awards.
