Information

Membership Number: FCA2511

Membership Type: Fellow

Division: Engineering and Applied Sciences

Corresponding Email: elsaddik@uottawa.ca

Homepage(s): https://mcrlab.net/ 

https://www.site.uottawa.ca/~elsaddik/ 

Present and Previous Positions

Distinguished University Professor, University of Ottawa

Director of Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Interactive Media & Serious Games 

Biomedical Engineering and Biofeedback 

Multimodal Interactions 

Social Media Multimedia 

Tele-surveillance Tangible User Interfaces 

Smart Cities

His present research focus is digital twins with five pillars: artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, IoT and social networks, multimodal interactions, and quality of experience powered communication networks (5G and tactile internet). He is associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications and guest editor for several IEEE Transactions and Journals. Dr El Saddik has been on technical program committees of numerous IEEE and ACM events. He has been the general chair and/or technical program chair of multiple international conferences, symposia and workshops on collaborative hapto-audio-visual environments, multimedia communications, and instrumentation and measurements. He is at present the director of the Multimedia Communication Research Laboratory.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering

Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery

He is the recipient of several national and international awards, including the IEEE Canada C.C. Gotlieb Computer Medal and the IEEE Canada A.G.L. McNaughton Gold Medal.

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=VcOjgngAAAAJ&hl=en 

Other Information

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulmotaleb_El_Saddik