Honors and Awards

  • 2009 - Elevated to Senior Member for ACM. See here
  • 2009 - Purdue Seeds of Success, VACCINE: Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability Environments.
  • 2005 - Techpoint Mira Team Award for software to improve maintenance operations for Navy vessels.
  • August 2004 - Awarded the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship.
  • June 2003 - Award from the CS Graduate Council to attend ICWS'2003
  • November 2002 - Outstanding reviewer by IEEE Internet Computing for 2002.
  • February 2002 - Grant from CRA to attend the CRA Academic Careers Workshop in 2002.
  • June 2000 - USENIX Scholar for One Year ($21,000).
  • May 1999 - Grant-in Aid Scholarship for Travel to SIGMOD'99, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
  • January 1998 - Three Year Scholarship for Ph.D. Studies, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (In the meantime I moved to Virginia Tech).
  • June 1991 - Four Year Scholarship for Ph.D. Studies in France (declined).
  • June 1991 - B.S. with First Honor (Summa Cum Laude).
  • June 1986 - 1986 Best Student Award by the Presidency of Algeria.
  • June 1986 - Baccalaureate (National High School Exam) with High Distinctions.

Session Chairing

  • Session Chair, the 19th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2007), Banff, Canada, July 2007.

Program Committee Membership

  • 14th International Conference on Information Quality 2009 (ICIQ'09), Germany, November 2009.
  • 2009 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC 2009), Singapore, Dec 7-11, 2009.
  • The IEEE 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-09) University of Bradford, Bradford, UK, May 26-29, 2009
  • The 7th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, May 10- 13, 2009
  • The Third IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC 2008), December 9-12., 2008
  • The 6th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC’08), December 1-5, 2008.
  • InternationalWorkshop on Semantic Extensions to Middleware: Enabling Large Scale Knowledge Applications (SEMELS ’08), November 9-14 2008.
  • Middleware for Web Services (MWS 2008) Workshop in conjunction with EDOC’08, September 2008.
  • International Workshop on Context enabled Source and Service Selection, Integration and Adaptation, April 2008.
  • The 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'07), December 2007.
  • The 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'07), June 2007.
  • The International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'07), May, 2007
  • The Eighth International Symposium On Programming and Systems (ISPS'2007), May, 2007
  • 14th International Conference on COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CoopIS 2006), November 2006
  • MOBILE AND WIRELESS LEARNING WORKSHOP, In Conjunction with IWCMC 2006, July 2006
    • The 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, 2005
  • Middleware for Web Services (MWS 2005) Workshop in conjunction with EDOC'05, 2005
  • The 6th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'05), 2005
  • The IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE-05), 2005.
  • The Second International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing, 2005.
  • The Seventh International Symposium on Programming and Systems, 2005.