Mohamed Ibnkahla

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 NSERC/Cisco Industrial Research Chair in Sensor Networks for the Internet of Things. 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. He obtained his Engineering degree in Electronics (1992) and Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies degree equivalent to MSc) in Signal and Image Processing (1992) from INPT. His current research interests include IoT system design, IoT device and system security, Artificial Intelligence for wireless communications, joint IoT/Edge/Fog/Cloud computing, and Big Data Analytics.

Prior to joining Carleton University, he was a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, from 2000 to 2015. Over the past 10 years, he has been conducting multi-disciplinary research projects designing, developing, and deploying advanced IoT systems for real-world applications including: smart homes, water quality monitoring, food traceability, smart farming and gardening, e-Health, smart grid, public safety, intelligent transportation systems, environment monitoring, and smart cities.