BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Mohamed Cheriet received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris VI) in 1985 and 1988 respectively. Since 1992, he has been a professor in the Systems Engineering department at the University of Quebec - École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Montreal, and was appointed full Professor there in 1998. Prof. Cheriet is the founder and director of Synchromedia Laboratory for multimedia communication in telepresence applications, since 1998.  

Dr. Cheriet is an expert in Computational Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Perception. In addition, Dr. Cheriet research has extensive experience in sustainable and empowered AI Future Networks and cloud computing., Dr. Cheriet has published more than 500 technical papers in the field and serves on the editorial boards of several renowned journals and international conferences. He held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair on Sustainable and Smart Eco-Cloud in 2013, and lead the establishment of the first smart university campus in Canada, created as a hub for innovation and productivity at Montreal. Dr. Cheriet is the General Director of the FRQNT Strategic Cluster on the operationalization of sustainability development, CIRODD (2019-2026). He is the Administrative Director of the CFI’2020 CEOS Network. He is a 2016 Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR), a 2017 Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), a 2018 Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), and a 2019 Fellow of Engineers Canada (EC). Dr. Cheriet is the recipient of the 2016 IEEE J.M. Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, the ÉTS Research Excellence prize in 2013, for his outstanding contribution in green ICT, cloud computing, and big data analytics research areas, and of the 2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. He is a senior member of the IEEE, the founder and former Chair of the IEEE Montreal Chapter of Computational Intelligent Systems (CIS), and a Steering Committee Member of the IEEE Sustainable ICT Initiative, and the Chair of ICT Emissions Working Group. He published 6 patents (3 granted), and the first standard ever, IEEE 1922.2, on real-time calculation of ICT emissions, in April 2020, with his IEEE Emissions Working Group.