Poster #28 - Hicham Hajji

IAV Institute, Morocco

Biography

Hicham Hajji is an associate professor at IAV Institute, Rabat, Morocco. He received a PhD (2005) and MSc (2001) in computer science from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon - INSA LYON , France in 2001. In 1999 he received an engineer degree of surveying from IAV Institute. Since 2001, he has occupied several positions inlcuding lecturer, IT consultant, and research & development engineer. He has been involved in more than 15 projects (technical and research projects) ranging from financial data warehousing, GIS projects , web mapping to big data with international and national institutions such as United Nations› UNIDO, USAID , Natixis bank, IXIS CIB, etc. His major research interests lie in big data management using scalable approaches and spatial data management. He was recently awarded the Water Innovation Fellowship from USAID and the Azure for Research Awards for ML (machine learning) from Microsoft. He is leading a research group working on applications of spatial big data management on transportation, telco, water management and forest management.