Abdelhakim Hafid

Abdelhakim Senhaji Hafid (Member, IEEE) is a Full Professor with the University of Montreal, where he founded the Network Research Lab. He is also a Research Fellow with CIRRELT, Montreal, Canada, and the Founding Director of the Montreal Blockchain Lab. Prior to joining University of Montreal, he spent several years, as a Senior Research Scientist with Telcordia Technologies (formerly, Bell Communications Research), Piscataway, NJ, USA, working in the context of major research projects on the management of next generation networks, including wireless (e.g., mobile ad-hoc networks) and optical networks. He was also an Assistant Professor with Western University (WU), Canada, the Research Director of the Advance Communication Engineering Center (venture established by WU, Bell Canada, and Bay Networks), Canada, a Researcher with CRIM, Canada, a Visiting Scientist with GMD-Fokus, Berlin, Germany, and a Visiting Professor with the University of Evry, France. He has extensive academic and industrial research experience in the area of the management and design of next generation networks. His current research interests include IoT, fog/edge computing, blockchain, and intelligent transport systems.