Professional Activities

Government Bodies and Advisory Boards

2025/12: Reviewer, Dutch Research Council (NWO), Netherlands — KIC Long-term Programmes.
2022–present: Member, Advisory Board, Research Center for Advanced Information Sci. & Tech., University of Aizu
2017–2018: Ph.D. Review Committee, University of Otago, New Zealand
2014–2015: Ph.D. Review Committee, Murdoch University, Australia
2009–2011: Member, High-Level Committee for Science and Tech, Office of the Prime Minister, Tunisia.
2018/4: Reviewer, Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austria.
2016/3: Reviewer, Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong.
2010–2013: Member, Scientific Innovation Council, TELNET Co. Ltd., Tunisia.

Elected Member, IEEE CASS (CASEO) Technical Committee (2025–present)
Full Member, Sigma Xi – The Scientific Research Honor Society (Class of 2025)
Senior Member, IEEE (since 2014) and ACM (since 2016).
Member, IEEE Systems Council and IEEE Computer Society.

IEEE Computer Society: Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Computer (2026–Present).
IEEE CASS CASEO: Elected Member of the Circuits and Systems Society Technical Committee on Education and Outreach.
IEEE MCSoC Forum: Founder and Standing Chair of the international IEEE MCSoC Forum.
IEEE EDS: Member of the Neuromorphics Technical Committee, Electron Devices Society.
IEEE Standards: Contributor to IEEE P3722 (Responsible AI in Higher Education).

Guest Editor: IEEE Computer, Special Issue on Convergence in Neuromorphic Systems (2025–2026)
Topic Editor: Computational Neuromorphic Imaging, Frontiers in Neuroscience (2025–Present)
Guest Editor: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (2014)

Vice Chair of the National High School PC Contest (PC‑Koshien) Steering Committee, 2026~. PC‑Koshien is a nationwide ICT competition for high school and technical college students, jointly organized by the University of Aizu, Fukushima Prefecture, and the National High School PC Contest Executive Committee.
International Skill Development: Leading initiatives for inclusive education in Neuromorphic Computing and AI via JICA (Japan) grassroots project, Tunisia (2023-2025)
Distinguished University Professor Committee (2024) & Faculty Promotion External Reviewer (2026), Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Government Advisory: Strategic advisory for national science and technology policies in Tunisia.
Global Professorships: Visiting Professorships at HUST (China), AUST (Nigeria), and HKUST (Hong Kong).

2004–Present: Standing/Steering Committee Chair, IEEE MCSoC Symposium Series
2025: Program Co-Chair, ICCSD 2025, Shanghai, China
2025: Program Chair, STA'2025, Hammamet, Tunisia
2025: Program Chair, ICEDA 2025, Shenzhen, China
2024: Program Chair, ICEDA 2024
2021–2025: Core Program Committee Member, ETLTC ACM Chapter Conference, Japan
2020: General Chair, IEEE MCSoC 2021
2017: General Chair, IEEE MCSoC 2017
2012: Program Co-Chair, Engineering Parallel and Multicore Systems, Italy
2009: Publication Chair, FCST 2009, Shanghai
2009: Program Chair, IEEE Embedded Software and Systems, Hangzhou
2007: General Chair, Embedded Single and Multicore SoCs, ICPP-2007, China
2006: Steering Chair, SoC and MCSoC Workshop, Indonesia
2006: General Chair, High-Performance Scientific Computing, Ohio, USA
2005: Program Co-Chair, CDES-05, Las Vegas
2004: Program Chair, JT-CSIT 2004, Tokyo, Japan