BIOGRAPHY  

Roch Glitho [SM] holds a Ph.D. (Tekn. Dr.) in tele-informatics (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden), and M.Sc. degrees in business economics (University of Grenoble, France), pure mathematics (University of Geneva, Switzerland), and computer science (University of Geneva). He is a Full Professor of Networking and Telecommunications at the Concordia Institute of Information Systems Engineering - CIISE where he holds the Ericsson / ENCQOR-5G Senior Industrial Research Chair in Cloud and Edge Computing for 5G and Beyond. He has held the Canada Research Chair in End-User Services Engineering for Communications Networks from 2010 to 2020. He is  an adjunct professor at the University of Western Cape (South Africa) and at the Institut de Mathématiques et Sciences Physiques (IMSP), University of Abomey-Calavi (Republic of Benin). In the past he has worked in industry for almost a quarter of a century and has held several senior technical positions at LM Ericsson in Sweden and Canada (e.g. expert, principal engineer, senior specialist). His industrial experience includes research, international standards setting, product management, project management, systems engineering and software/firmware design. In the past he has also served as IEEE Communications Society distinguished lecturer, Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Communications Magazine and Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.  His research interests include cloud/edge/fog computing, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) /Software Defined Networks (SDN),  Tactile Internet, Hardware acceleration, Neuromorphic computing and Internet of Things (IoT).