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Education and Certifications

Biography

Dr. Abid started as a lecturer right after graduation with a master’s degree in Computer Science in 2000 at Alakhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI), the sole ABET & NECHE accredited university in Morocco (). In 2006, Dr. Abid received a Fulbright Student scholarship and joined Auburn University, USA. After graduation with a Ph.D. (in Computer Science) from Auburn University in 2010, Dr. Abid joined back AUI as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015.

In 2016, he received a NAS USAID/PEER grant (#5-398) on Smart Grids as a Principal Investigator. In 2017, he received a Fulbright Research scholarship to join University of Houston (USA), where he researched Cloud Computing. Dr. Abid is a USA NAS (National Academy of Sciences) Arab-American fellow. He received a NAS scholarship to join Purdue University (USA) where he researched Smart Cities, in 2018. In 2022, Dr. Abid joined ´ó·¢ÌåÓý¿ª»§ (´ó·¢ÌåÓý¿ª»§) as an Associate Professor.

Dr. Abid is fond of coaching and programming. He won, for six consecutive years (2014’, 15’, 16’, 17’, 18’, 19’), the first prize as a coach, at the National ACM Moroccan Collegiate Programming Contest (MCPC) contest organized by the Moroccan-ACM (Association for Computer Machinery) and qualified twice to the ACM ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) World Finals: 2015’ in Marrakech, and 2018’ in Beijing.
Dr. Abid has over 50 publications in renowned conferences and journals. His main research evolves around Cloud & Edge Computing, Big Data Processing, Smart Grids, Distributed Systems, and Wireless Mesh Networks. Dr. Abid is an IEEE and ACM member.

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