Work Experience

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

2019 - Present

The University of Virginia (UVA), Charlottesville, USA.
Engineering Systems and Environment Department.

RESEARCH SCIENTIST

2018 - 2019

The University of Virginia (UVA), Charlottesville, USA.
Engineering Systems and Environment Department.

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

2017 - 2018

The University of Virginia (UVA), Charlottesville, USA.
Engineering Systems and Environment Department.

GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT

2014 - 2017

The University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC), Quebec, Canada.
Ambient intelligence to assist Alzheimer patients.
Online learning on smartphones.

RESEARCH ENGINEER

2013 - 2014

The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France.
Designing GeoVisu: a multi-agent simulation, data mining and visualization framework.

RESEARCH INTERN

2012 - 2013

The French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR), Paris, France.
Online manipulation of pollution data in smart cities. Designing a web application that online extracts pollution data from the sensors deployed in smart cities.

RESEARCH INTERN

2011 - 2012

National institute of Cartography and Remote Sensing (INCT) and General Direction of civil protection (GDCP), Algiers, Algeria.
Designing an efficient geographic information system to manage radiological and nuclear emergency situations.

Education

PhD in Computer

2014 - 2016

Ambiante Inteligence for Activity Recognition Laboratory (LIARA)
The University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, (QC) Canada

Master of Science in Computer Science

2012 - 2013

The University of Montpellier II, France.

Contractor engineer

JAN 2011 - DEC 2012

INSA of Lyon, France.

Computer science engineer

2007 - 2012

The High school of computer science (ESI ex INI), Algeria.