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).