Ahcène Bounceur

Biography

Dr. Ahcene Bounceur, IEEE Senior Member, is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sharjah. Previously, he served as an Associate Professor at KFUPM and as a Senior Associate Professor with qualifications for professorship at the University of Brest in France. In 2021, he was appointed by the French Ministry as a member of the National Council of Universities (CNU). His current research centers on Agentic AI, Digital Twin IoT, Cybersecurity of smart critical infrastructures, as well as exploring Data Science, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), and Pseudo-polygons. Dr. Bounceur earned his Habilitation to Lead Research (HDR) in 2014, his Ph.D. in Micro and Nano Electronics from Grenoble INP, France, in 2007, an M.Sc. in Operations Research from ENSIMAG, Grenoble, in 2003, and his Engineering degree in Operations Research from the University of Bejaia. He placed 3rd in the IEEE TTTC Doctoral Thesis Contest in Berkeley, USA, in May 2007. He has coordinated the PERSEPTEUR project and collaborated in the Suidia project, an IoT-based digital health initiative that resulted in a patent. To date, Dr. Bounceur has published over 200 articles and has frequently been invited as a keynote speaker. He is also the primary developer of the CupCarbon simulator.

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