Aref MEDDEB
AREF MEDDEB studied at the high school of Khaznarad in Bardo, Tunis and pursued his engineering college studies at IPEIN, Nabeul, Tunisia. He obtained his Engineer’s degree from ENIT, Tunisia, in 1992, and both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada, in 1995 and 1998, respectively.
He worked with Alcatel, INRS-Telecom, Teleglobe, and Nortel . He was full professor at the University of Sousse. He is currently full professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sherbrooke, Canada.
His research interests include Cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Post Quantum Cryptography, Wireless Sensor Networks, Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing, and RFID systems with focus on Privacy, Network Security Protocols, QoS, Routing, and Design issues. He is listed three times in a row among the top 2% scientists in Networking and Telecommunications worldwide, in 2019-20-21, according to a survey published by a research team from Stanford University.
He earned a badge in Introduction to Cybersecurity from Cisco academy in 2021.
He launched and managed the National Solidarity Initiative “Yes We Breathe” to fight COVID-19 in 2020. This led to an unprecedented involvement by numerous academic institutions and showed the real potential of Tunisian students.
