Aawatif Hayar

Pr. Aawatif HAYAR is Expert in social policies and Artificial Intelligence driven inclusive sustainable smart cities and territories. Strategic Advisor at Presidency of University Mohammed VI Polytechnic on Artificial Intelligence driven Smart Cities in charge of Smart Campus project. Former Minister of Solidarity, Social Inclusion and Family 2021-2024. She received, with honors, as the First Moroccan, the degree of “Agrégation” in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan in 1992. She received the “Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies” in Signal processing Image and Communications and the degree of Engineer in Telecommunications Systems and Networks from ENSEEIHT de Toulouse in 1997. She received with honors the Ph.D. degree in Signal Processing and Telecommunications from Institut National Polytechnique in Toulouse in 2001.

She was research and teaching associate at EURECOM’s Mobile Communication Department from 2001 to 2010 in Sophia Antipolis-France. Aawatif Hayar has an HDR (Habilitation à Diriger la Recherche) from University Sud Toulon Var from France on Cognitive Wideband Wireless Systems on 2010 and an HDR on Green Téléommunication from University Hassan II Casablanca on 2013. From 2011 till June 2019, Aawatif Hayar had Professor position at the engineering school ENSEM of University Hassan II Casablanca. From June 2019 till October 2021, Pr. Aawatif Hayar was appointed President of the University Hassan II of Casablanca-Morocco and is the second female in the history of Morocco to occupy this position. She is also member of Casablanca “Avant-garde” City think-tank. Her research interests includes fields such as cognitive green communications systems, UWB systems, smart grids, smart sustainable social development, e-governance, open data for citizens, frugal social smart cities, social policies, ICT4good, Artificial Intelligence driven smart cities and communities.

Pr. Aawatif Hayaris also IEEE DLT Chair for EMEA region on 2014 and the designer of Frugal Social Sustainable Smart City concept for Casablanca and emerging countries which was selected by IEEE Smart City initiative as one of the most innovative projects in the world in 2015. Pr. Aawatif Hayar is currently Chair of Casablanca IEEE Core Smart City project. She was also selected by the prestigious African Innovation Foundation as one of the top ten innovative African women in 2015. Aawatif Hayar has developed “Frugal Social Collaborative Sustainable Smart City Casablanca“, a new concept for smart city transformation which was distinguished by IEEE Smart city initiative in 2015 as an innovative cost effective inclusive smart city concept. She is the Scientific Advisor, at the City level, of Smart City Expo Casablanca and General Co-Chair of IEEE international Conference on Smart Cities (IEEE ISC2 -2019). Pr Hayar was elected in September 2021 member of the AUF (Agence Universitiare de la Francophonie) Council at the international level. Pr. AawatifHayar is currently leading or involved in a couple of R&D/Innovation projects with the City of Casablanca, the region Casablanca Settat, CNRST, INDH, GIZ and Heinrich Böll Stiftung such as End to End Energy Efficiency Living Lab, Virtual Museum of Casablanca, e-douar “Smart Inclusive Ecological village”and Solar Decathlon Africa E-Co Dar and Benguerir Smart City ASToN AFD projects.

Talk Title: IoT, Blockchain, Big Data Technologies and Predictive Analytics to Enable the Development of Cyber-Physical Smart Cities.