Professional Activities

This page provides a brief overview of my professional service to the research community. Over the years, I have contributed to various conferences, advisory boards, review panels, and academic committees. I have also supported journals and funding agencies through refereeing and evaluation work.

Government Bodies and Advisory Boards

• 2025/12: Reviewer, Dutch Research Council (NWO), Netherlands — Reviewed a large, interdisciplinary programme proposal submitted to the KIC Long-term Programmes call, emphasizing public–private research collaboration.
• 2022–present: Member, Advisory Board, Research Center for Advanced Information Science and Technology (AIST), University of Aizu, Japan.
• 2009–2011: Member, High-Level Committee for Science and Technology, Office of the Prime Minister, Tunisia.
• 2018/4: Reviewer, Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austria.
• 2017–2018: Ph.D. Review Committee Member, University of Otago, New Zealand.
• 2016/3: Reviewer, Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong.
• 2014–2015: Ph.D. Review Committee Member, Murdoch University, Australia.
• 2010–2013: Member, Scientific Innovation Council, TELNET Co. Ltd., Tunisia.

Memberships of Academic Societies

• Elected Member, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Technical Committee on Circuits and Systems Education and Outreach (CASEO), 2025–present
• Full Member, Sigma Xi – The Scientific Research Honor Society (Class of 2025)
• Senior Member, IEEE (since 2014)
• Senior Member, ACM (since 2016)
• Member, IEEE Systems Council
• Member, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
• Member, IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Computer Architecture
• Member, European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)

Major Conference Chair and Leadership

• 2004–Present: Standing/Steering Committee Chair, IEEE MCSoC Symposium Series
• 2025: Conference Program Chair, ICoIAS 2025, December 16–18, 2025, Osaka, Japan
• 2025: Program Co-Chair, ICCSD 2025, Shanghai, China
• 2025: Program Chair, STA 2025, December 20–22, 2025, Hammamet, Tunisia
• 2025: Program Co-Chair, ICEDA 2025, December 19–21, 2025, Shenzhen, China
• 2024: Program Chair, ICEDA 2024, October 21–23, 2024, Singapore
• 2021–Present: Core Program Committee Member, ETLTC ACM Chapter Conference, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan
• 2020: General Chair, IEEE MCSoC 2021, December 20–23, 2021, Singapore
• 2017: General Chair, IEEE MCSoC 2017, September 18–20, 2017, Seoul, Korea
• 2009: Publication Chair, FCST 2009, Shanghai, China
• 2009: Program Chair, IEEE Embedded Software and Systems, Hangzhou, China
• 2007: General Chair, Embedded Single and Multicore SoCs, ICPP 2007, China
• 2006: Steering Chair, SoC and MCSoC Workshop, MoMM 2006, Indonesia
• 2006: General Chair, High-Performance Scientific Computing, Ohio, USA
• 2005: Program Co-Chair, CDES 2005, Las Vegas, USA
• 2004: Program Chair, JT-CSIT 2004, Tokyo, Japan

Refereeing and Review Service

University Promotion and Tenure

• 2014–Present: School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Aizu
• 2014–Present: Graduate School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Aizu

Research Grant Agencies

• 2014–Present: Competitive Research Funding, University of Aizu, Japan
• 2025/12: Reviewer, Dutch Research Council (NWO), Netherlands
• 2016/3: Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong
• 2018/4: Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austria

International Journals and Transactions

• IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
• IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
• IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal
• IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
• Frontiers in Neuroscience
• IEICE Transactions
• IEEE Transactions on Computers
• IEEE Micro
• IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I
• IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems
• IEEE Access
• IEEE Transactions on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems
• ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems
• Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
• IET Circuits, Devices & Systems
• Journal of Supercomputing
• Integration: The VLSI Journal
• Journal of Artificial Life and Robotics

Major International Conferences

• International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS 2026), May 24–27, 2026, Shanghai, China
• IEEE Symposium on Low-Power and High-Speed Chips (IEEE COOLChips), Yokohama, 2010–2022
• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Daegu, Korea, May 23–26, 2021
• 20th International Conference on STA (STA 2020), Monastir, Tunisia, December 20–22, 2020
• 16th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS 2013), Gwangju, Korea, September 4–6, 2013
• ComComAp 2013, HKUST, Hong Kong, April 1–4, 2013
• 6th International Workshop on Engineering Parallel and Multicore Systems, Taichung, Taiwan, July 3–5, 2013
• IEEE COOL Chips XI, Yokohama, April 17–19, 2013
• IEEE COOL Chips XI, Yokohama, April 18–20, 2012
• IEEE COOL Chips XIV, Yokohama, April 20–22, 2011
• IEEE COOL Chips XIII, Yokohama, April 14–16, 2010
• 19th Intelligent System Symposium (FAN 2009), Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, 2009
• 4th International Symposium on MCSoC (MCSoC 2009), Vienna, Austria, 2009
• IEEE 8th International Conference on Embedded Computing, Dalian, China, 2009
• IEEE 9th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Brazil, 2008
• IEEE 5th International Symposium on Embedded Computing, Beijing, China, 2008
• IIHCI 2008 – Intelligent Interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction
• International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, 2008
• ICESS 2008 – International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, Chengdu, China, July 29–31, 2008
• IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, Taipei, 2007
• ESO 2007 – Embedded Software Optimization, Taipei, 2007
• International Conference on Intelligent Pervasive Computing, Korea, 2007
• WESAPEC 2007 – Embedded System Architectures for Pervasive Devices, Korea, 2007
• AsiaCSN 2007 – Communication Systems and Networks, Thailand, 2007
• CCN 2006 – Communications and Computer Networks, Peru, 2006
• ESO 2006 – Embedded Software Optimization, Korea, 2006
• EUC 2005 – Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, Nagasaki, Japan, 2005
• 20th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, USA, 2005
• International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications, 2004
• PDPTA 2004 – Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, USA, 2004
• VLSI 2004 – International Conference on VLSI, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2004
• CCN 2004 – Communication and Computer Networks, USA, 2004

IEEE Activities

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Last updated: October 2025