Interdisciplinary Technological Advancements in Smart Cities

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Arij Naser Abougreen received the M.Sc degree in Communication engineering from the University of Tripoli Libya in 2018. She is studying a PhD in communication Engineering. Her research interests include image processing machine learning Internet of Things and wireless communication. She has three years of teaching experience. She is working as an Assistant Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department in University of Tripoli Libya. She served as a technical Program Committee member and a reviewer for several conferences such as 7th IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things (WFIoT2021) New Orleans USA; 11th series of IEEE Symposium on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ISCAIE 2021); 44th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP) 2021; 30th International Conference on Computing and Communication Networks (ICCCN-2021) organized by Manchester Metropolitan University United Kingdom and EAI CICom 2022 - 3rd EAI International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communications. She also served as a reviewer for journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer) and Applications and Applied Artificial Intelligence journal (Taylor & Francis). She has authored/ co-authored four book chapters and two papers. She will be acting as a session chair for the IEEE-IITCEE 2023 conference. She is a member of IEEE Public Safety Technology Smart Algorithm and Informatics Committee. She is currently editing a book to be published by AAP. She has published three books by IGI Global and CRC Press. Shilpa Mehta received her BE and MTech degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Maharishi Dayanand University India and Northcap University India in 2009 and 2011 respectively. She completed her PhD degree from Auckland University of Technology New Zealand in July 2022. She has five years of teaching experience from different reputed colleges and universities in India. Currently she is working as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering School of Engineering Computer and Mathematical Sciences Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Auckland New Zealand. She was awarded Summer Doctoral Research Scholarship for her PhD research. She has worked on various interdisciplinary research projects and her research interests include Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits RF front ends Optimization Internet of Things Wireless Communication Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Radars and Software-defined Radios Smart cities. She has presented research works during various IEEE conferences and published journal articles in top peer-reviewed journals. She served as a session chair for IEEE CSRSWTC 2021 and an organizer for International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA) 2022. She is serving as a peer reviewer for Elsevier Wiley Hindawi and IEEE Access journals and a technical committee member for various IEEE conferences. She is editing a special issue for Advanced Engineering Technology and Application Journal and serving as an Executive Editor for International Transactions on Artificial Intelligence Journal. She is also serving as a Reviewer Board Member for the International Research Journal of Engineering & Applied Sciences. She is currently editing two books to be published by IGI Global. She will be acting as a session chair for the IEEE-IITCEE 2023 conference. Cristina Costa received the M.S. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Genoa Italy in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication technologies from the University of Trento Italy in 2005 with a thesis on video transmission over wireless links. She joined the Internet Services Group Telecom Italia Lab Turin Italy as a Researcher providing technology transfer and scientific support to operational Telecom Italia divisions. She worked as a Researcher with the CREATE-NET Research Center Trento from 2004 to 2019. After she joined the Fondazione Bruno Kessler Trento and in 2021 she was appointed Head of the Smart Networks and Services (SENSE) Research Unit. From 2023 she is Head of Research at the National Laboratory on Smart and Secure Networks at CNIT the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications. During her career she was involved in several research projects both at the national and international level gaining experience both as a researcher and as project coordinator in the fields of wireless and mobile networks multimedia communications interfaces and interaction 5G and edge computing. She served as a Member in the organizing committees of various conferences in particular of European Wireless (2020) Intetain (2011) UCMedia (2009 2010) and SecureComm (2005). She is IEEE Senior member and founder member of the IEEE Women In Engineering AG Italy Section where she acted secretary from 2017 to 2021.