Advances in Blockchain Technology for Cyber Physical Systems / Internet of Things (PDF)

chair of the MLBDACP 19 symposium and ICI2C'21 Conference.

Lo'ai Tawalbeh completed his PhD degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Oregon State University in 2004, and MSc in 2002 from the same university with GPA 4/4. Dr. Tawalbeh is currently an Associate professor at the department of Computing and Cyber Security at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. Before that he was a visiting researcher at University of California-Santa Barbra. Since 2005 he taught/developed more than 25 courses in different disciplines of computer engineering and science with focus on cyber security for the undergraduate/graduate programs at: NewYork Institute of Technology (NYIT), DePaul's University, and Jordan University of Science and Technology. Dr. Tawalbeh won many research grants and awards with over than 2 million USD. He has over 80 research publications in refereed international Journals and conferences.

Saad Motahhir (Eng., Ph.D., IEEE Senior Member) has previous expertise acting in industry as Embedded System Engineer at Zodiac Aerospace morocco from 2014 to 2019, and more recently became a professor at ENSA, SMBA university, Fez, Morocco since 2019. He received the engineer degree in embedded system from ENSA Fez in 2014. He received his Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering from SMBA University in 2018. He has published a good number of papers in journals and conferences in the last few years, most of which are related to photovoltaic (PV) solar energy and Embedded Systems. He published number of patents in Morocco patent office. He edited a springer book and acted as a guest editor of different special issues and topical collections. He is reviewer and in the editorial board of different journals. He was associated with more than 30 international conferences as a Program Committee/Advisory Board/Review Board member.





Abdelhakim Senhaji Hafid is Full Professor atthe University of Montreal. He is the founding director of Network Research Lab and Montreal Blockchain Lab. He is research fellow at CIRRELT, Montreal, Canada. Dr. Hafid published over 240 journal and conference papers; he also holds three US patents. He supervised to graduation over 50 graduate and postgraduate students. Prior to joining U. of Montreal, he spent several years, as senior research scientist, at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), NJ, US working in the context of major research projects on the management of next generation networks. Dr. Hafid was also Assistant Professor at Western University (WU), Canada, Research director of Advance Communication Engineering Center (venture established by WU, Bell Canada and Bay Networks), Canada, researcher at CRIM, Canada, visiting scientist at GMD-Fokus, Germany and visiting professor at University of Evry, France. Dr. Hafid consulted for a number of telecommunication companies and startups in North America; he also gave talks/keynotes in a number of international conferences. He co-founded Tipot Technologies Inc. (Research & Development Platform for IoT). Dr. Hafid has extensive academic and industrial research experience in the area of the management and design of next generation networks. His current research interests include IoT, Fog/edge computing, blockchain, and intelligent transport systems