Six PhD theses co-supervised in France and Algeria, five completed. The four most recent candidates alone produced 19 joint publications: 8 journal articles, 10 conference papers and 1 preprint.

• 2024–2026
  Defence 30 Nov 2026
  Mazene Ameur

  EURECOM / Sorbonne Université, France. Advanced AI techniques for zero-touch service management in 5G/6G networks. With Prof. Adlen Ksentini. Jury member.

• 2021–2025
  Defended
  Shajjad Hossain

  Université Bourgogne Europe, France. AI for attack detection in 5G-V2X networks. With Prof. S. M. Senouci and Dr. A. Boualouache.

• 2020–2024
  Defended
  Taki Eddine Toufik Djaidja

  Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France. Securing 5G and beyond vehicular networks with AI/ML. With Prof. S. M. Senouci, Prof. Y. Ghamri-Doudane and Dr. A. Boualouache.

• 2019–2023
  Completed
  Sabra Ben Saad

  EURECOM, France. Security architectures for 5G/B5G network slice management. With Prof. Adlen Ksentini.

• 2018–2021
  Completed
  Nadjet Azzaoui

  University of Ouargla, Algeria. Towards a smart city: data dissemination in Internet of Vehicles networks. With Prof. Ahmed Korichi.

• 2017–2021
  Completed
  M. Anis Benblidia

  University of Technology of Troyes, France. Energy management in Smart Grid–Cloud systems. With Prof. L. Merghem-Boulahia and Dr. M. Esseghir.

Current supervision at the University of Sharjah

• Undergraduate junior and senior projects in Computer Science, Bioinformatics and IT Multimedia since 2024 (12 students in 2024/25 and 12 in 2025/26), for example LLM-powered student advising chatbots, smart parking and AI for kids.
• Academic advisor and mentor to graduate students as coordinator of the MSc in Artificial Intelligence.