I received the Diplome d’Ingenieur degree (summa cum laude) in Telecommunication Engineering from the Ecole Superieure des Communications de Tunis (SUP’COM), Tunisia, and the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Hons.) from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.

I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering within WaveCore Arenberg at KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Research Interests

Optimization, machine learning, graph-based methods, wireless communications, and the Internet of Things.

What’s New

• 2026.02 - Our paper “Resource Allocation in Hybrid Radio-Optical IoT Networks using GNN with Multi-task Learning” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking (IEEE TMLCN).
• 2026.01 - Our paper “Graph Neural Networks for Vehicular Social Networks: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE T-ITS).
• 2024.09 - Our paper “AoI in Context-Aware Hybrid Radio-Optical IoT Networks” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2024)
• 2024.09 - Our paper “LSTM-based dynamic routing with non-ISL LEO satellite constellations for remote IoT connectivity” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2024)
• 2024.02 - I started my Ph.D. within the WaveCore group at KU Leuven.
• 2023.07 - Our paper “Multi-Rotor UAVs in Crowd Management Systems: Opportunities and Challenges” was accepted for publication in IEEE Internet of Things Magazine.
• 2023.03 - Our paper “V3Trans-Crowd: A Video-Based Visual Transformer for Crowd Management Monitoring” won the Best Paper Award at IEEE SM'23.
• 2023.03 - Our paper “Real-Time Video Frame De-Raining Using Disentangled Generative Models” was accepted for publication in the IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility 2023.
• 2023.03 - Our paper “V3Trans-Crowd: A Video-Based Visual Transformer for Crowd Management Monitoring” was accepted for publication in the IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility 2023.
• 2022.05 - Our paper “Service Discovery in Social Internet of Things Using Graph Neural Networks” was accepted for publication in the IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2022).
• 2021.06 - Our paper “Evolutionary Algorithms for 5G Multi-Tier Radio Access Network Planning” was accepted for publication in IEEE Access.
• 2021.04 - Our paper “Towards Collaborative Mobile Crowdsourcing” was accepted for publication in IEEE Internet of Things Magazine.
• 2021.02 - Our paper “Low-Complexity Recruitment for Collaborative Mobile Crowdsourcing Using Graph Neural Networks” was accepted for publication in IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
• 2020.11 - I was re-assigned to a Junior Research Scientist with the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology.
• 2020.10 - Our paper “An Evolutionary Algorithm for Collaborative Mobile Crowdsourcing Recruitment in Socially Connected IoT Systems” was accepted for publication in the IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (GCAIoT 2020).
• 2020.09 - Our paper “Optimal Team Recruitment Strategies for Collaborative Mobile Crowdsourcing Systems” was accepted for publication at IEEE TEMSCON 2020.
• 2020.09 - Our paper “A Trustworthy Recruitment Process for Spatial Mobile Crowdsourcing in Large-Scale Social IoT” was accepted for publication at IEEE TEMSCON 2020.
• 2020.07 - Our paper “Many-to-Many Recruitment and Scheduling in Spatial Mobile Crowdsourcing” was accepted for publication in IEEE Access.
• 2020.04 - Our paper “A Spatial Mobile Crowdsourcing Framework for Event Reporting” was accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.
• 2020.03 - I was re-assigned as a Research Scholar with the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology.
• 2019.09 - Our paper “A Stochastic Team Formation Approach for Collaborative Mobile Crowdsourcing” was accepted for publication in the 31st International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM 2019).
• 2019.06 - Our paper “A Photo-Based Mobile Crowdsourcing Framework for Event Reporting” was accepted for publication in the IEEE 62nd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2019).
• 2019.02 - I started a new role as a Research Intern at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA, in the Systems Engineering Department.
• 2016.09 - I received a scholarship to pursue the B.Eng. degree in Telecommunication Engineering at SUP’COM.