Honors

The following is a list of Honors/Awards including Keynote/Plenary/Invited talks:

  • The 2021 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Land Transportation Best Paper Award

  • Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association

  • Keynote Speaker at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Applications, Melbourne Australia, June 2021

  • Best AI Paper Award at the 6th Annual Conference on Vision and Intelligent Systems, Nov. 25-27, 2020

  • Keynote Speaker at the 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking (MLN'2020), Paris, France, Nov. 24-26, 2020

  • Keynote Speaker at the International Symposium on Test Automation and Instrumentation, China, Nov 20, 2020

  • Keynote Speaker at the First International Conference on Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies, Riyadh, KSA, Nov. 3-5, 2020

  • Keynote Speaker at the 13th Int. Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2020

  • Fellow, IEEE, 

  • Fellow, Engineering Institute of Canada,

  • Best Paper Award, 18th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, Milan, Italy, 2019

  • The University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Performance Award, 

  • Keynote Speaker at the IEEE International Symposium on Robotics and Sensors, Ottawa, Canada, 2019

  • Valedictory Speaker at Dayalbagh Educational Institute, India, 2018

  • Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering

  • IEEE Certificate of Appreciation for Notable Services to the IEEE and the Engineering Profession, 2017

  • Keynote Speaker at the 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Tunisia, Nov. 2017

  • IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2016

  • Keynote talk at the 10th IEEE Int. Conference on Service Operations and Logistics and Informatics, Hammamet, Tunisia, November 15-17, 2015

  • The 2014 Pattern Recognition Best Paper Award for best article published in the Journal Pattern Recognition (year 2011), awarded in August 2014.

  • Co-author of the Most Cited and Most Downloaded article on Elsevier’s Information Fusion (December 2015) since 2009

  • Co-author of the Most Cited article on Elsevier’s Computers in Biology and Medical Sciences (August 2014) since 2009

  • Keynote Speaker at the 14th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Kuwait, Dec 2014.

  • Plenary Speaker at the 6th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, August 2014, Tunis, Tunisia

  • Keynote Speaker at the 2014 Symposium on Industrial Systems and Control, Dhahran, KSA, May 2014.

  • IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Certificate of Appreciation for Services rendered to the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2014.

  • Keynote Speaker at the 2014 International Industry-Academia Collaboration Conference, Cairo, Egypt 2014

  • Keynote Speaker at the 2012 Symposium on Industrial Systems and Control, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KSA, May 2012

  • Keynote Speaker at the 2012 International Workshop on Mechatronics and Multisensory Systems, KAUST, KSA, February 2012.

  • Co-author of the paper winner of Best Student Paper Award, Second DIVANET Workshop, Ottawa, August 2012

  • Best Paper Award at the The 2011 International Conference on Financial Engineering (co-authors D. Sawh and K. Ponnambalam)

  • Keynote Speaker at the 2011 International Conference on Control, June 2011, Vancouver, Canada

  • First Runner Up for the Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, June 2011 for the paper “Integrating Visual Exploration and Visual Search in Robotic Visual Attention: the Role of Human-Robot Interaction”

  • Plenary Speaker at the International Conference on Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, Porto, Portugal, June 2010

  • Plenary Speaker at 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA2009), Daejeon, South Korea, Dec. 2009

  • Retina Online Challenge for Microaneurysm Detection, First Runner Up Team, SPIE: Medical Imaging 2009, International Society for Optics and Photonics, Feb 2009

  • Honorary Professorship, De La Salle University, Philippines, March 2009

  • Certificate of Appreciation for Distinguished Contribution to the 3nd International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information technology, Communication and control, Environment, and Management, March 2009

  • First Runner up for the 2009 E. Yang’s Univ. of Waterloo Research Innovation Award

  • Plenary Speaker at the 5th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology and Information Technology, Manila, Philippines, March 2009

  • The University of Waterloo’s Outstanding Performance Award, April 2008.

  • Keynote Speaker at the 2008 International Congress of Arab Expatriate Engineers, Tunis, Tunisia, May 2008

  • Keynote Speaker at the 2008 International Conference on Technology, Communication and Education, Kuwait, April 2008

  • Keynote Speaker at the 2007 Fourth International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, New Zealand, November 2007

  • Keynote Speaker at the 2005 International Conference on Machine Intelligence, Tozeur, TN, November 2005

  • Keynote Speaker at the International Scientific Research Outlook, Riyadh, SA, April 2004

  • Canadian Representative for the 15th Frontiers of Science Symposium, National Academies of Sciences, Irvine, CA, November 2003

  • Plenary Speaker at the 2002 IEEE Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 2002

  • Keynote speaker award presented at the 2002 International Conference on Automation and Control, Xiamen, China, June 16-June18, 2002

  • Premier Research Excellence Award, November 2000.

  • Presidential Gold Medal for contribution to transfer of Science and Technology to Tunisia awarded by the Office of the President of Tunisia in 1999, and 2001

  • An IEEE International Speaker Award (awarded by IEEE Mexico Chapter), Monterrey, Mexico, October 1999.

  • The Anderson Best Paper Award, the 1998 World Automation Congress in Anchorage Alaska, May 9-May14, 1998.

  • Supervised the First Place Winning Team of the 1998 National Engineering Competition in the Corporate Design Category, Ottawa, Canada, March 6-7, 1998.