CASABLANCA - Professor Mounir Ghogho, director of the Information Technology and Communication Laboratory at the International University in Rabat, was recently selected to be among the 126 international researchers awarded the prestigious IBM Faculty Award for his research on “Smarter Cities.”
CASABLANCA – Professor Mounir Ghogho, director of the Information Technology and Communication Laboratory at the International University in Rabat, was recently selected to be among the 126 international researchers awarded the prestigious IBM Faculty Award for his research on “Smarter Cities.”
According to daily Aujourd’hui le Maroc, professor Ghogho’s project consists of creating a research platform that would allow researchers to develop techniques aimed at rendering Moroccan cities more intelligent, using sensors, algorithms and web interfaces.
One of Ghogho’s projects is to develop a simulator that would allow a real-time estimation of traffic in urban areas for a better management of resources.
Based on his biography on the official website of UK’s Faculty of Engineering (University of Leeds), Mounir Ghogho received an M.S. degree in 1993 and a PhD in 1997 from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France.
He also held many invited scientist/professor positions at the US Army Research Lab (USA), Telecom Paris-Tech (France), University Carlos 3rd of Madrid (Spain), ENSICA (France), Darmstadt Technical University (Germany), Minnesota University (USA), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication (China), and University Mohamed V (Morocco).
The IBM Faculty Awards is a competitive worldwide program intended to promote collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide.
According to the award’s official website, Faculty Awards are cash awards granted annually, and the current maximum award to any one recipient is $40,000 per year.
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