🎓️️Prof. Wadii Boulila Director of RIOTU Laboratory; IEEE Senior Member Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia Wadii Boulila (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in computer science from the Aviation School of Borj El Amri in 2005, the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the National School of Computer Science (ENSI), University of Manouba, Tunisia, in 2007, and the joint Ph.D. degree in computer science from ENSI and Télécom Bretagne, University of Rennes 1, France, in 2012. He is currently a Professor of computer science and the Director of the RIOTU Laboratory, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia. He was also as a Senior Researcher with the RIADI Laboratory, University of Manouba. Previously, he has held the position of a Senior Research Fellow with the ITI Department, University of Rennes 1. He has actively contributed to several research and industrial projects, with primary research interests spanning data science, computer vision, big data analytics, deep learning, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and uncertainty modeling. He is member of ACM and AAAI and a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) in the U.K. He was a recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Best Young Researcher in Computer Science Award from Beit El-Hikma in 2021, the Best Researcher Award from the University of Manouba in 2021, the Most Cited Researcher Award from the University of Manouba in 2022, the Research Excellence Award, and the Best Faculty Member for Most impactful Research Output Award from Prince Sultan University. He has served as the chair, a reviewer, and a technical program committee (TPC) member for many leading international conferences and journals. His work has garnered global recognition, and he has been named among the top 2% of scientists worldwide in his field by Stanford University. |