Professional Activities

Leadership & Institutional Governance3

Founder and Standing Chair, MCSoC Forum — a premier global forum advancing multicore systems and intelligent computing technologies.
Member, IEEE EDS Neuromorphics Technical Committee, Electron Devices Society.
Contributor, IEEE P3722 — Responsible AI in Higher Education Standard.

Associate Editor

Guest / Topic Editor

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)

2004–Present: Standing/Steering Committee Chair, IEEE MCSoC Symposium Series
2026: Session Chair (CAS Education and Outreach: Teaching Methods and Tools), ISCAS 2026, Shanghai, Dec. 24–27, 2026
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

Full Member, Sigma Xi – The Scientific Research Honor Society (Class of 2025)
Senior Member, IEEE; Senior Member, ACM
Member, IEEE Computer Society
Member, IEEE Systems Council
Member, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS)
Member, IEEE CASS — Circuits and Systems Education and Outreach (CASEO) Technical Committee
Member, IEEE CASS — VLSI Systems and Applications (VSA) Technical Committee

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).

2026/06: Reviewer, Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austria.
2025/12: Reviewer, Dutch Research Council (NWO), Netherlands — KIC Long-term Programmes.
2022–present: Advisory Board Member, Research Center for Advanced Information Science & Technology, University of Aizu, Japan.
2018/04: Reviewer, Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austria.
2017–2018: Ph.D. Review Committee, University of Otago, New Zealand.
2016/03: Reviewer, Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong.
2014–2015: Ph.D. Review Committee, Murdoch University, Australia.
2010–2013: Member, Scientific Innovation Council, TELNET Co. Ltd., Tunisia.
2009–2011: Member, High-Level Committee for Science and Technology, Office of the Prime Minister, Tunisia.