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<\/p>\nDr. Abdelaziz Bouras is Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department<\/span><\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0College of Engineering<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Qatar University<\/span><\/a> (QU) and Manager at <\/em>the Offic<\/em>e of Rese<\/em>arch Sup<\/em>port (Vice-President of Research and Graduate Studies office). He joined QU in 2013 as Scientific Chair of ictQATAR\u00a0<\/span>(Supreme <\/em>Council of Information & Communication Technology — currently MCIT<\/a> Ministry of Communications and Information Technology).<\/em><\/p>\n He obtained his PhD and Research Habilitation in Computer Science from the University of Lyon<\/a> (France) and has been conferred a Honoris-Causa Doctor degree, in 2011, by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindorn of Thailand (in Chiangmai University).<\/em><\/p>\n Before joining QU, he was full Professor (Exceptional Class) at University of Lyon, where he was successively Deputy Director of PRISMA and DISP “Information and Decision Systems” research laboratories and Director of the “Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center”. During his tenure in Lyon, he contributed to several Rhone-Alps industry-university initiatives; and to many institutional collaborations through research stays in Mexico, India, Thailand, China and USA.<\/em><\/p>\n Dr. Abdelaziz\u00a0is currently the Chair of the IFIP WG5.1<\/a> Working Group on ICT for Lifecycle management and contributed to several international programs, such as the NIST Cyber-Physical Systems framework<\/a>. He led or participated in a dozen of international projects in Qatar (ie. NPRP: Blockchains for Supply chains, Industry integrated education<\/a>, Knowledge preservation, and Smart Cities) and in Europe (ie. FP7: Smart Wearable Products<\/a>, Future Internet Technologies for Manufacturing industries<\/a>, Sustainable e-Tourism…); and contributed to the creation of start-ups (Ginkyo<\/a> Mentor in France, Digital Incubation Center<\/a>\u00a0 Steering Committee in Qatar).<\/em><\/p>\n He\u00a0has founded or co-founded several international conferences (IFIP PLM<\/a>\u00a0Internat. Conf., IEEE SKIMA<\/a> Internat. Conf., CAD Internat. Conf….) and scientific journals (IJPLM, JMPM, IJPD…) and is currently editorial board member of several others (SSMS<\/a>, JIM…<\/a>). He consulted for governments, organisations and companies in Europe, America and Asia and is\/was member of IFIP, IEEE, ASME, Design Society, GDR-MACS, V-LAB, MICADO… and received several international awards and grants for his initiatives in the field of ICT and their applications.<\/em><\/p>\n Dr. Abdelaziz acts as expert for several research\/education agencies (Canadian NSERC & FNRT, French ANR & AERES, Italian ANVUR, Greek Ministry of Education, Estonian Competence Centres) and universities (in Thailand, China, KSA, Jordan, UAE, Morocco…<\/em>). He also takes part in several university committees: Executive Committee for Digital Transformation, <\/span>Committee for AI Integration in Higher Education, Graduate Studies Committee, etc.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n