CONFERENCE CHAIR

Prof. Madjid Merabti
Liverpool John Mooores University, United Kingdom

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Biography of the Conference Chair

Madjid Merabti is Professor of Networked Systems and Director of the School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He is a graduate of Lancaster University in the UK. He has over 20 years experience in conducting research and teaching in the areas of Computer Networks (fixed and wireless), Mobile Computing, and Computer Network Security. Prof. Merabti is widely published in these areas and leads the Distributed Multimedia Systems and Security Research Group, which has a number of UK Government, EU, and industry supported research projects. He is principal investigator in a number of current projects in Digital Rights Management, Games Technology, Multimedia Networking, Mobile Networks Security and Privacy Architectures and Protocols, Secure Component Composition in Ubiquitous Personal Networks, Networked Appliances, Mobile and Ad-Hoc Computing Environments, and Sensor Networks.
He is Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Area Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine series on Networked Appliances and Home Networking, Co-Editor in-Chief for the International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC), Member of Editorial Boards for Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications Journal, Elsevier Journal on Computer Communications, and Wiley’s Communications and Security Journal. Madjid is Guest Editor for Springer Signal Processing special issue on "Advances in Peer-to-Peer Contents Management," 2009. He was Guest Editor for the Special issue on "Research Developments in Consumer Communications and Networking", Multimedia Tools and Applications: An International Journal, Kluwer, September 2005.
Madjid Merabti serves on the steering committee for the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking (CCNC) series of conferences. He is Technical Programme Chair for: IEEE ICC Symposium on Special Areas of Communications, Germany 2009, and IASTED - EuroIMSA 2009 European Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications. He is a member of a number of international conference programme committees on networking, security, networked appliances, digital rights management, and computer entertainment.