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Funded projects

Eleven funded projects across six host institutions: four UAE, three European and four French national. UAE funding totals AED 1,726,000.

PeriodProjectAmountRole
2025–2028ChatEV: generative AI for the electric-vehicle Net Zero vision in the UAEDubai Research, Development and Innovation (Dubai RDI)AED 1,200,000Co-investigator
2025–2026Deep ORAN: automated deep learning for sliced Open RAN in 6G (collaborative UPAR project)UAE UniversityAED 400,000Co-investigator
2024–2027DeepORAN: deep learning-based slicing O-RAN framework for B5G/6G (competitive grant)University of SharjahAED 96,000Principal investigator
2024–2026AI for edge computing-enabled collision avoidance between autonomous cars (seed grant)University of SharjahAED 30,000Principal investigator
2022–20255G-VIA: 5G testbed for intelligent and autonomous vehicles on OpenAirInterfaceUniversité Bourgogne Europe (French regional)€50,000Sole coordinator (PI)
2021–20235G-INSIGHT: security for V2X 5G slicingANR (France) + FNR (Luxembourg)€809,000WP contributor
2019–2020H2020 MonB5G: zero-touch slice managementEuropean Commission (EURECOM)€5,572,491Researcher
2019–2020H2020 5G!Drones: slices for UAV use casesEuropean Commission (EURECOM)€12,870,579Researcher
2019–2020InDiD: C-ITS over 5G slicingEuropean CEF (EURECOM)€10,766,707Researcher
2018–2019LOCADYN: disruption prediction in Industry 4.0French national (CESI)€385,000Researcher
2017–2018B.A.C: IoT thermal-comfort monitoringFrench national (UTT)€100,000Researcher

Amounts for the European and French projects are total project budgets.