Chadlia JERAD, Ph.D.

Embedded Systems & Cyber-Physical Systems — Researcher, Practitioner and Enthusiast

Associate Professor, ENSI, University of Manouba  ·  UC Berkeley Fulbright Scholar

About Me

My research and teaching are driven by a simple but hard question: how do we build systems that are not just functional, but predictably correct — in time, in behavior, and under real physical constraints. I am an Associate Professor at ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia, and a twice-visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's EECS Department, where I collaborated with Edward A. Lee on the Lingua Franca and Accessors projects. My work spans real-time embedded platforms, hardware architecture, cyber-physical systems, and IoT, with a touch of formal verification where it matters most. Beyond research, I co-lead several projects between Tunisian and German institutions — mostly TU Dresden and HS Offenburg — funded by DAAD, bridging two research cultures through joint programs, student exchanges, and shared curricula. I serve on the program committees of RTAS, RTSS, and DATE, and publish in ACM TECS, IEEE ESL, and Proceedings of the IEEE. I am currently exploring the intersection of physical AI and autonomous embedded systems — where machine intelligence meets real-time constraints and physical actuation. I enjoy collaborating across the theory-to-implementation spectrum and I still write embedded code.

Areas of Interest

  • Embedded Systems
  • Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Real-Time Systems
  • Computer Architecture
  • Formal Methods & Model Checking
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
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Open Source Contributions

Education

Recent News

September 2026: Guest editor of "African Perspectives on Real-Time and Cyber-Physical Systems," a special issue of Springer journal Real-Time Systems.
September 2026: Paper accepted at TCRS 2026 and to appear in IEEE ESL — "Decentralized Coordination in LF: Timing Correctness and Transient Federate Support"
September 2026: Paper accepted at TCRS 2026 and to appear in IEEE ESL — "Runtime Monitoring of Observation-Delay Tolerant Reinforcement Learning Policies in Lingua Franca."
May 2026: Tutorial "Lingua Franca: An Open-Source Coordination Language for Deterministic Integration of Cyber-Physical Systems" at CPS-IoT Week 2026, Saint-Malo, France. With H. Kim (Arizona State) and E. A. Lee (UC Berkeley).
September 2025: Paper accepted at EMSOFT 2025 and to appear in ACM TECS — "Quasi-Static Scheduling for Deterministic Timed Concurrent Models on Multi-Core Hardware."
September 2025: Served as opponent at the PhD defense of Henrik Austad, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
February 2025: Co-organized Dagstuhl Seminar 25091 "Tradeoffs in Reactive Systems Design", Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.

Publications • Talks • Tutorials • Posters • Presentations

Publications

Decentralized Coordination in LF: Timing Correctness and Transient Federate Support
C. Jerad, E. A. Lee
IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, pp. 1-1, 2026, Early access DOI
Runtime Monitoring of Observation-Delay Tolerant Reinforcement Learning Policies in Lingua Franca
B. Oueslati, C. Jerad
IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, pp. 1-1, 2026, Early access DOI
Quasi-Static Scheduling for Deterministic Timed Concurrent Models on Multi-Core Hardware
S. Lin, E. R. Jellum, M. Theile, T. Tanneberger, B. Sun, C. Jerad, Y. Xu, G. Feng, M. Maehlum, J. Chen, M. Schoeberl, L. T. X. Phan, J. Castrillon, S. A. Seshia, E. A. Lee
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, vol. 24, no. 5s, pp. 1–25, 2025, Special issue, EMSOFT'25 DOI
Combining Early Exit and Selective Prediction for Convolutional Neural Networks
H. Bouraoui, C. Jerad, J. Castrillon
IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, 2025, Special issue on Time-Centric Reactive Software (TCRS, ESWeek 2025) DOI
Tradeoffs in Reactive Systems Design (Dagstuhl Seminar 25091)
J. Castrillón-Mazo, C. Jerad, E. A. Lee, C. Pagetti, S. J. Lin
Dagstuhl Reports, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 126–157, 2025 DOI
Worst-Case Performance for Real-Time Systems
M. Schoeberl, E. R. Jellum, S. Lin, C. Jerad, E. J. Maroun, M. Lohstroh, E. A. Lee
Research Directions: Cyber-Physical Systems, vol. 3, pp. e2, 2025 DOI
Toward Dynamism in Distributed Lingua Franca Programs
C. Jerad, E. A. Lee
IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 111–114, 2025, Special issue on Time-Centric Reactive Software (TCRS, ESWeek 2024) DOI
PretVM: Predictable, Efficient Virtual Machine for Real-Time Concurrency
S. Lin, E. R. Jellum, M. Theile, T. Tanneberger, B. Sun, C. Jerad, R. Xu, G. Feng, C. Menard, M. Lohstroh, J. Castrillon, S. A. Seshia, E. A. Lee
arXiv preprint, vol. arXiv:2406.06253, 2024 DOI
Towards Building Verifiable CPS Using Lingua Franca
S. Lin, Y. A. Manerkar, M. Lohstroh, E. Polgreen, S. Yu, C. Jerad, E. A. Lee, S. A. Seshia
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, vol. 22, no. 5s, pp. 1–24, 2023 DOI
InterPRET: A Time-Predictable Multicore Processor
E. R. Jellum, S. Lin, P. Donovan, C. Jerad, E. Wang, M. Lohstroh, E. A. Lee, M. Schoeberl
Proceedings of CPS-IoT Week 2023, pp. 331–336, 2023 DOI
MAPN: Modeling, Analysis, and Exploration of Algorithmic and Parallelism Adaptivity
H. Bouraoui, C. Jerad, O. Romdhani, J. Castrillon
arXiv preprint, vol. arXiv:2207.07591, 2022 DOI
AI Approaches for IoT Security Analysis
M. Abou Messaad, C. Jerad, A. Sikora
Intelligent Systems, Technologies and Applications, pp. 47–70, 2021 DOI
Towards Adaptive Multi-Alternative Process Network
H. Bouraoui, C. Jerad, J. Castrillon
12th Workshop on Parallel Programming and Run-Time Management Techniques for Many-core Architectures (PARMA-DITAM 2021), pp. 1:1–1:15, 2021 DOI
On Enabling Technologies for the Internet of Important Things
M. Lohstroh, H. Kim, J. C. Eidson, C. Jerad, B. Osyk, E. A. Lee
IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 27244–27256, 2019 DOI
Comparing Dataflow and OpenMP Programming for Speaker Recognition Applications
H. Bouraoui, J. Castrillon, C. Jerad
PARMA-DITAM 2019, pp. 1–6, 2019 DOI
A Component Architecture for the Internet of Things
C. Brooks, C. Jerad, H. Kim, E. A. Lee, M. Lohstroh, V. Nouvellet, B. Osyk, M. Weber
Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 106, no. 9, pp. 1527–1542, 2018 DOI
Deterministic Timing for the Industrial Internet of Things
C. Jerad, E. A. Lee
2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet (ICII), pp. 13–22, 2018 DOI
Hardware Architectures for Embedded Speaker Recognition Applications: A Survey
H. Bouraoui, C. Jerad, A. Chattopadhyay, N. B. Hadj-Alouane
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 1–28, 2017 DOI
A JavaScript Extension Providing Deterministic Temporal Semantics for the Internet of Things
C. Jerad, E. A. Lee
EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2017-136, 2017 Link
On-the-Fly Architecture Design and Implementation of a Real-Time Stereovision System
M. B. M. Masmoudi, C. Jerad, R. Attia
Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS 2016), pp. 700–711, 2016 DOI
Time Properties Verification of UML/MARTE Real-Time Systems
A. Louati, K. Barkaoui, C. Jerad
IEEE Workshop on Formal Methods Integration (IEEE FMi), pp. 663–670, 2014 DOI
Temporal Properties Verification of Real-Time Systems Using UML/MARTE/OCL-RT
A. Louati, K. Barkaoui, C. Jerad
Workshop on Formal Methods Integration, pp. 133–147, 2014
Formalization and Verification of Hierarchical Use of Interaction Overview Diagrams Using Timing Diagrams
A. Louati, C. Jerad, K. Barkaoui
International Journal of Soft Computing and Software Engineering, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 205–211, 2013
On CPN-Based Verification of Hierarchical Formalization of UML 2 Interaction Overview Diagrams
A. Louati, C. Jerad, K. Barkaoui
5th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO), pp. 1–6, 2013 DOI
Formalization and Verification of Hierarchical Use of Interaction Overview Diagrams
A. Louati, K. Barkaoui, C. Jerad
International Conference on Software and Systems Engineering and their Applications (ICSSEA), 2012
On the Use of Real-Time Maude for Architecture Description and Verification: A Case Study
C. Jerad, K. Barkaoui, A. Grissa-Touzi
Visions of Computer Science: BCS International Academic Conference, pp. 7–10, 2008 DOI
Hierarchical Verification in Maude of LfP Software Architectures
C. Jerad, K. Barkaoui, A. Grissa-Touzi
European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA), pp. 156–170, 2007 DOI
On the Design and Analysis of Real-Time Systems
C. Jerad, K. Barkaoui, A. Grissa-Touzi
22nd International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA), 2007
Vers une vérification hiérarchique des architectures logicielles
C. Jerad, K. Barkaoui, A. Grissa-Touzi
7èmes Journées Scientifiques des Jeunes Chercheurs en Génie Électrique et Informatique (GEI'07), 2007
Vérification des architectures des systèmes distribués par utilisation du LTL model checker de Maude
C. Jerad, K. Barkaoui, A. Grissa-Touzi
8ème Colloque Africain sur la Recherche en Informatique (CARI'06), pp. 99–106, 2006
Nouvelle Approche pour la Définition et la Manipulation de la Négation par les Programmes Stratifiés
A. Grissa-Touzi, C. Jerad, K. Barkaoui
Les Annales Maghrébines de l'Ingénieur, vol. 2, pp. 587–599, 2005
On the Use of Rewriting Logic for Verification of Distributed Software Architecture Description Based LfP
C. Jerad, K. Barkaoui
16th IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP 2005), pp. 202–208, 2005 DOI
New Approach for Manipulation of Stratified Programs
C. Jerad, A. Grissa-Touzi, H. Ounelli
World Enformatika Conference (WEC'05), 2005
STRPRO Tool for Manipulating Stratified Programs Based on SEPN
C. Jerad, A. Grissa-Touzi, H. Ounelli
World Enformatika Conference (WEC'05), 2005
Définition d'un Générateur de Systèmes Experts Basé sur les Réseaux à Prédicats
C. Jerad, A. Grissa-Touzi, K. Barkaoui
4èmes Journées Scientifiques des Jeunes Chercheurs en Génie Électrique et Informatique (GEI'04), 2004

Invited Talks

— Cyber Physical Systems & Internet of Things
— Example Applications and Innovation Frameworks
Chinese & Tunisian Innovation Challenge, 2nd edition of One Belt One Road: Global Digital Online Study 2021 — Jul 2021
Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things
Chinese & Tunisian Innovation Challenge, 1st edition of One Belt One Road 2021 — Jan 2021
A browser for Things: using the Accessors software architecture
ivESK-Kolleg, HS-Offenburg, DE — Jun 2018
A browser for Things: using the Accessors software architecture
Chair for Compiler Construction, cfaed, TU Dresden, DE — Apr 2018
Model checking architectural descriptions: software and hardware
ZIH Colloquium, TU-Dresden, DE — Apr 2015

Tutorials

Lingua Franca: An Open-Source Coordination Language for Deterministic Integration of Cyber-Physical Systems
H. Kim, C. Jerad, E. A. Lee
Presented at CPS-IoT Week 2026, Saint Malo, FR — May 2026, Link

Posters

Augmented Reality with Accessors
M. Weber, E. A. Lee, C. Brooks, C. Jerad, H. Kim, M. Lohstroh, V. Nouvellet, B. Osyk
TerraSwarm 2017 Annual Meeting, Berkeley, CA — Oct 2017, Link

Presentations

Running Accessors On Mobile Devices Using Cordova
C. Jerad, H. Kim, M. Lohstroh, V. Nouvellet, M. Weber
The Ptolemy Group Lunch, Berkeley, CA — May 2017
Mutable Accessors & Deterministic Temporal Semantics
The Ptolemy Group Lunch, Berkeley, CA — Apr 2017
Tutorial on Maude
The Ptolemy Group Lunch, Berkeley, CA — Nov 2016
Bringing Swarmlets into River Styx
The Ptolemy Group Lunch, Berkeley, CA — Sep 2016

Positions • Leadership • Research Stays

Positions

Sep 2009 – Present
Associate Professor — ENSI, University of Manouba, TN

Teaching: Undergraduate and graduate courses in Embedded Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems, Real-Time Operating Systems, and Computer Architecture

Advising: M.S. Eng. projects and capstones, M.S. and Ph.D. theses; thesis committee member

Research: Embedded Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems, Time-Predictable Execution, and Timing-Aware Deployment of Learned Controllers (Physical AI)

Partnerships: Sagemcom Software & Technologies, Actia Engineering, Sofia Technologies (industry); TU Dresden, HS Offenburg (academic)

Oct 2022 – Aug 2023
Visiting Scholar — EECS Department, UC Berkeley, USA

Host: Prof. Edward A. Lee

Role: Contributed to the Lingua Franca project. Formalized and implemented transient federates.

Sep 2016 – Aug 2017
Fulbright Visiting Scholar — EECS Department, UC Berkeley, USA

Host: Prof. Edward A. Lee

Role: Contributed to the Accessors project. Formalized and implemented mutation and deterministic temporal semantics.

Nov 2021 – Aug 2022
Consultant in Embedded Engineering — iCompass (AI Tunisian startup, NLP), TN

Designed and developed the Voice Push platform

Designed and developed a holographic agent

Sep 2007 – Aug 2009
Assistant Professor — ISSATS, University of Sousse, TN
Sep 2003 – Aug 2007
Assistant Professor (Contractor) — ENIT, University of Tunis El Manar, TN
May – Sep 2003
Engineer — Department of Electronic Security, Mediterranean Services, TN

Administrative Responsibilities & Academic Leadership

Sep 2014 – Aug 2020
Coordinator, Embedded Software and Systems (SLE) Specialization — ENSI, University of Manouba, TN

Directed the academic strategy and updated the 5th-year curriculum

Built long-term partnerships with industry and foreign universities, and promoted the specialization to students and companies

Organized workshops, seminars, hackathons and info sessions to prepare students for internships and the job market

Sep 2012 – Aug 2019
Course Coordinator — ENSI, University of Manouba, TN

Coordinated multi-instructor teaching teams for three core courses

2010 – Present
Student Club Advisor & Mentor — ENSI, University of Manouba, TN

Faculty advisor for the Robotics Club (Club Robotique ENSI, Association Robotique ENSI), and Open Source Software ENSI Club

Mentor students on the technical, logistical and strategic aspects of their projects

Research Stays Abroad

Research stay @ cfaed, TU Dresden, DE
  • Nov 2021, Aug 2021 • Project: CyPhySym
    Key Achievements: Co-advised 1 M.S. thesis (A. Hamdi) and 1 Ph.D. thesis (H. Bouraoui); co-authored 1 workshop paper (PARMA-DITAM 2021)
  • Aug 2020 • Project: EngCPS&IoT
    Key Achievements: Co-advised 1 M.S. thesis (O. Romdhani) and 1 Ph.D. thesis (H. Bouraoui); co-authored 1 workshop paper (PARMA-DITAM 2021).
  • May 2019, Jul 2019 • Project: Embedded Parallel Programming
    Key Achievements: Co-advised 1 M.S. thesis (M. T. Aouayeb) and 1 Ph.D. thesis (H. Bouraoui); co-authored 1 workshop paper (PARMA-DITAM 2019).

Funded by: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Research stay @ ivESK, HS Offenburg, DE
  • Sep 2021 • Project: IoTIC
    Key Achievements: Co-authored 1 conference paper (ISTA 2021), groundwork for the co-advised Ph.D. of M. Abou Messaad.
  • Jul 2019 • Project: ContIoT
    Key Achievements: Co-advised 1 M.S. thesis (H. Benaissa).
  • May 2018 • Project: RealIoT

Funded by: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Research stay @ CNAM, Paris, FR
  • Jun–Jul 2013
    Key Achievements: Co-advised the Ph.D. of A. Louati (defended 2015); co-authored 5 papers on Petri-net-based verification of UML diagrams (2012–2014).

Funded by: Association MedLink

Research stay @ CNAM, Paris, FR
  • Oct 2004, May–Jun 2005, Apr–Jun 2006
    Key Achievements: Doctoral research under the co-advice of Prof. K. Barkaoui.

Funded by: Ministry of Higher Education, TN

Current Courses • Guest Lecturer • Previously Taught

Levels: M.S. Eng. (Diplôme d'Ingénieur) = 2 preparatory years + 3 years of engineering school, accredited at the master's-in-engineering level (Years 3–5); M.S. = 2 years after a 3-year Licence (Year 4 = M.S. 1st year, Year 5 = M.S. 2nd year); Licence = Years 1–3. "Year" counts years after high school.

Current Courses

Cyber-Physical Systems [EN]

M.S. Eng. & M.S., Year 5

Based on EECS 149/249A at UC Berkeley

Hands-on: embedded labs on the Pololu 3pi+ robot (M.S. Eng.), robot simulator IR-Sim (M.S.)

Real-Time Operating Systems [EN, FR]

M.S. Eng., Year 5

Textbook: Liu, J. W. S. (2000). Real-Time Systems. Pearson Education/Prentice Hall.

Served as class coordinator among involved instructors (2012-2016)

Introduction to Embedded Systems [EN]

M.S., Year 4

Forked from EECS 149/249A at UC Berkeley

Guest Lecturer

Sensors and Acquisition [EN] @ MSE, University of Manouba

M.S. Eng., Year 3 • 2025 - 2026

Embedded Systems [EN] @ EPT, University of Carthage

M.S. Eng., Year 4 • 2017 & 2019

Computer Architecture [EN] @ EPT, University of Carthage

M.S. Eng., Year 3 • 2019 -2020

Sensors, Networks and Internet of Things [EN] @ ENIT, University of Tunis El Manar

M.S., Year 5 • 2017 - 2019

Previously Taught

@ ENSI, University of Manouba
  • Advanced Architectures and Parallel Programming [EN, FR]
    M.S. Eng., Year 5 • 2021 – 2024
    Based on CS 267 at UC Berkeley
  • Formal Methods []
    M.S., Year 4 • 2021 – 2022
  • Programming Connected Objects [EN]
    M.S. Eng., Year 5 • 2021 – 2023
  • Introduction to Embedded Systems [FR]
    M.S. Eng. & M.S., Year 4 • 2012 - 2019
    Elaborated in collaboration with ST Microelectronics, TN
    Served as class coordinator among involved instructors
  • Microprocessor Design [FR]
    M.S. Eng., Year 4 • 2009 - 2019
    Based on CS 152 at UC Berkeley
    Served as class coordinator among involved instructors (2011-2019)
  • Computer Architecture [FR]
    M.S. Eng., Year 3 • 2009 - 2012
@ ISSATS, University of Sousse, TN
  • Computer Architecture [FR]
    Licence, Year 2 • 2007 – 2009
  • Digital Circuits [FR]
    Licence, Year 2 • 2007 – 2009
@ ENIT, University of Tunis El Manar, TN
  • Computer Architecture [FR]
    M.S. Eng., Year 3 • 2003 – 2007
  • Algorithms and C/C++ Programming [FR]
    M.S. Eng., Year 3 • 2003 – 2007

Initiatives

May 2025
Co-organizer and moderator — Flight Workshop: A Journey through Aeronautics

Venue: Technopole de la Manouba, Manouba, TN

Featuring Dr. Scott Eberhardt

Mar – Dec 2021
Lead proposer and principal author; Tunisian-side PI — The Cyber and the Physical Symbiosis (CyPhySym)

Funded by DAAD (Transformation Program Line 2)

Formal applicant: TU Dresden, DE

Partners:ENSI, University of Manouba, TN

  • Organized the thematic session The Cyber and the Physical Symbiosis with TU Dresden (program, speakers, logistics)
  • Funded the research stay of M.S. student A. Hamdi at TU Dresden (co-advised with Prof. J. Castrillon)
  • Co-advised the Ph.D. of H. Bouraoui, TU Dresden (with Prof. J. Castrillon)
  • Funded reciprocal faculty visits (see Research Stays)
Mar – Dec 2021
Lead proposer and principal author; Tunisian-side PI — IoT Innovation Challenge (IoTIC)

Funded by DAAD (Transformation Program Line 2)

Formal applicant: HS-Offenburg, DE

Partners:ENSI, University of Manouba, TN

  • Coordinated and mentored Tunisian teams in the Bosch Sensortec IoT Innovation Challenge
  • Funded the finalist teams' trip to Stuttgart for the final pitch and award ceremony
  • Funded the research stay of Ph.D. student M. Abou Messaad at HS Offenburg (co-advised with Prof. A. Sikora)
Mar – Dec 2020
Lead proposer and principal author; Tunisian-side PI — Engineering Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things (EngCPS&IoT)

Funded by DAAD (Transformation Program Line 2)

Formal applicant: TU Dresden, DE

Partners:ENSI, University of Manouba, TN

  • Organized the seminar series Design and Programming Cyber-Physical Systems and IoT Applications (moved online due to COVID-19)
  • Funded the research stay of M.S. student O. Romdhani at TU Dresden (co-advised with Prof. J. Castrillon)
  • Co-advised the Ph.D. of H. Bouraoui, TU Dresden (with Prof. J. Castrillon)
  • Funded reciprocal faculty visits (see Research Stays)
Mar – Dec 2020
Lead proposer and principal author; Tunisian-side PI — 5 Years and More Generations of Fruitful Collaboration in IoT (5G+IoT)

Funded by DAAD (Transformation Program Line 2)

Formal applicant: HS-Offenburg, DE

Partners:ENSI, University of Manouba, TN

  • Organized the 3rd IoT Hackathon with HS Offenburg
  • Funded the research stay of Ph.D. student M. Abou Messaad at HS Offenburg (co-advised with Prof. A. Sikora)
Mar – Dec 2020
Tunisian-side PI — Cooperation for Sustainable Development in Drylands

Funded by DAAD (Transformation Program Line 2)

Formal applicant: University of Hamburg, DE

Partners:ENSI, University of Manouba, TN & HS-Offenburg, DE

  • Contributed to the 3rd IoT Hackathon (5G+IoT project): the Drylands partners defined the hackathon topic and delivered online talks on it
Mar – Dec 2019
Lead proposer and principal author; Tunisian-side PI — Embedded parallel programming in practice, teaching and research

Funded by DAAD (Transformation Program Line 2)

Formal applicant: TU Dresden, DE

Partners:ENSI, University of Manouba, TN

  • Organized the round table 'Research landscape and opportunities for technology transfer' (ENSI, Dec 3, 2019)
  • Hosted Prof. J. Castrillon and his Ph.D. students H. Bouraoui and A. Goens (TU Dresden) at ENSI to teach a 15-hour compilers course (M.S. Eng., Year 5)
  • Co-advised 1 M.S. Eng. capstone project and the M.S. thesis of M. T. Aouayeb
  • Co-advised the Ph.D. of H. Bouraoui, TU Dresden (with Prof. J. Castrillon)
  • Funded reciprocal faculty visits (see Research Stays)
Mar – Dec 2019
Lead proposer and principal author; Tunisian-side PI — Continued Collaboration for IoT (ContIoT)

Funded by DAAD (Transformation Program Line 2)

Formal applicant: HS-Offenburg, DE

  • Organized the 2nd IoT Hackathon with HS Offenburg
  • Organized a study trip to Germany for 10 Tunisian students and 2 faculty members
  • Co-advised 1 M.S. Eng. capstone project and the M.S. thesis of H. Benaissa
  • Funded reciprocal faculty visits (see Research Stays)
Mar – Dec 2018
Lead proposer and principal author; Tunisian-side PI — Realizing IoT: in Business and Engineering (RealIoT)

Funded by DAAD (Transformation Program Line 2)

Formal applicant: HS-Offenburg, DE

Partners:ENSI, University of Manouba, TN

  • Organized the 1st IoT Hackathon with HS Offenburg
  • Hosted Prof. A. Sikora (HS Offenburg) at ENSI to teach a 30-hour IoT course (M.S. Eng., Year 5)
  • Co-advised 3 M.S. Eng. capstone projects
  • Funded reciprocal faculty visits (see Research Stays)
Mar – Dec 2016
Lead proposer and principal author; Tunisian-side PI — Get-together towards a sustainable collaboration in IoT

Funded by DAAD (Transformation Program Line 2)

Formal applicant: HS-Offenburg, DE

Partners:TU Dresden (ZIH and cfaed), DE & ENSI, University of Manouba, TN & ENIT, University of Tunis El Manar, TN

  • Organized the IoT School & Workshop 2016 across the three partner institutions
  • Co-advised 1 M.S. Eng. capstone project
  • Funded reciprocal faculty visits
Nov 2014
Lead proposer and principal author; Tunisian-side PI — Design and Applications of Multi-Processors System on Chip (Winter School)

Venue: Cité des Sciences, Tunis, TN

Funded by DAAD (Transformation Program Line 2)

Formal applicant: cfaed, TU Dresden, DE

Partners:ENIT, University of Tunis El Manar, TN

Across most DAAD projects, part of the budget equipped ENSI's embedded systems and IoT labs with FPGA boards, sensors, actuators, single-board computers and microcontroller boards (Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Jetson, Arduino), used in courses, hackathons and student projects.

Advising

Ongoing

Yassine Hattay — Ph.D.

Characterization, Modeling and Deadline-Aware Optimization of CPU-Only Vision-Language Model Inference on Edge and Embedded Platforms

ENSI, University of Manouba

Co-advised with Majdi Jribi (ENSI, University of Manouba)

Hasna Bouraoui — Ph.D.

Adaptivity in deploying applications onto heterogeneous embedded platforms

TU Dresden

Co-advised with Jeronimo Castrillon (TU Dresden)

Past Students

Balkis Oueslati — M.S. (Defended, Sep 2026)

Imitation-Based Reinforcement Learning for Delay-Aware Locomotion: Reward Shaping and Runtime Monitoring for Embedded Deployment

ENSI, University of Manouba

Ayoub Bnina — M.S. (Defended, Sep 2026)

AeroTrack: Active Perception and Closed-Loop Control for UAV Swarm Tracking: Adaptive Early-Exit Inference and Distribution-Aware Association in Photorealistic Simulation

ENSI, University of Manouba

Yessine Hattay — M.S. (Defended, Sep 2026)

CPU-Only LLM Inference: Compute, Bandwidth, and Capacity Limits: A Performance Model for llama.cpp on Consumer and Embedded Hardware

ENSI, University of Manouba

Omaima Younsi — M.S. (Defended, Dec 2022)

Contextual Data Fusion in Collaborative Body Sensor Networks: Application to e-Emergency

ENSI, University of Manouba

Mohamed Abou Messaad — Ph.D. (Discontinued (joined industry), 2022)

Towards Low-Cost, Low-Power Hardware Accelerators for Machine Learning-Based Cybersecurity

ENSI, University of Manouba

Co-advised with Narjes Bellamine (ENSI, University of Manouba) and Axel Sikora (HS Offenburg)

Abir Hamdi — M.S. (Defended, Dec 2021)

Towards Rapid Prototyping and Simulation of mAPN Models

ENSI, University of Manouba

Co-advised with Jeronimo Castrillon (TU Dresden) and Hasna Bouraoui (TU Dresden)

Omar Romdhani — M.S. (Defended, Dec 2020)

MAPN: Assessment Against State-of-the-Art Dynamic Dataflow MoC

ENSI, University of Manouba

Co-advised with Jeronimo Castrillon (TU Dresden) and Hasna Bouraoui (TU Dresden)

Ala Eddine Lajili — M.S. (Defended, Jul 2020)

Exploring Mesh-of-Tree Architecture and Developing a Dedicated Router

ENSI, University of Manouba

Mohamed Taher Aouayeb — M.S. (Defended, Sep 2019)

Study of the Impact of Scheduling Frequency on the Time Predictability of FlexPRET

ENSI, University of Manouba

Co-advised with Jeronimo Castrillon (TU Dresden)

Hamza Benaissa — M.S. (Defended, Sep 2019)

Narrowband IoT Extension for the NS-3 Simulator

ENSI, University of Manouba

Co-advised with Axel Sikora (HS Offenburg)

Mohamed Abou Messaad — M.S. (Defended, Oct 2019)

Architecture for Embedded Image and Stereo Vision Processing, Based on Chisel

ENSI, University of Manouba

Moez Othmani — M.S. (Defended, Oct 2019)

Architecture for Embedded Deep Learning Processing, Based on Chisel

ENSI, University of Manouba

Mohamed Masmoudi — Ph.D. (Discontinued (remained in industry), 2017)

Design Methodologies for Reconfigurable Real-Time Vision Architectures: Focus on Stereovision Systems

EPT, University of Carthage

Co-advised with Rabah Attia (EPT, University of Carthage)

Nesrine Abid — Ph.D. (Discontinued (remained in industry), 2015)

Fault Diagnosis Using Hybrid Automata

ENIT, University of Tunis El Manar

Co-advised with Nejib Ben Hadj Aoulane (ENIT, University of Tunis El Manar)

Aymen Louati — Ph.D. (Defended, May 2015)

Contribution à la Formalisation et à la Vérification des Diagrammes Dynamiques UML 2 à base des Réseaux de Petri

ENIT, University of Tunis El Manar & CNAM Paris

Co-advised with Kamel Barkaoui (CNAM Paris) and Noureddine Ellouze (ENIT, University of Tunis El Manar)

About 2.5 M.S. Eng. Year-4 projects and 3 M.S. Eng. Year-5 capstones supervised every year, including award-winning Year-4 projects: best project award in 2017–18 and 2025–26, second best in 2024–25. (2011 - current)

ENSI, University of Manouba

May 2023 – Aug 2023
3D Rationality Fellowship

EECS Department, UC Berkeley

Supporting the ongoing collaboration between 3D Rationality and UC Berkeley.

Sep 2016 – Aug 2017
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellowship

UC Berkeley, iCyPhy Research Center

Mar 2018
Nominated to '100 Future Leaders' (2018, 1st edition)

ITES – Tunisian Institute of Strategic Studies

Aug 2017
Portrait of the Month

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Tunis

Organizing • Academic Services • D/T Committee • Panel Chairing • Miscellaneous

Organizing

Co-organizing Dagstuhl Seminar 25091: Tradeoffs in Reactive Systems Design (Feb 2025)

J. Castrillón-Mazo (TU Dresden, DE), E. A. Lee (UC Berkeley, US), C. Pagetti (ONERA – Toulouse, FR)

Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, DE

Organizing Committee of the 3rd Workshop on Time-Centric Reactive Software (TCRS 2025) (2025)

Taipei, TWCo-located with ESWEEK 2025

Academic Services

Dissertation/Thesis Committee

Sep 2025
PhD Dissertation Committee (Opponent) of Henrik Austad

Dissertation: 'Deterministic Networks for Low-Latency Cyber-Physical Systems'

NTNU, Trondheim, NO

Dec 2022
M.S. Thesis Committee (Reviewer) of Bayrem Zarai

Thesis: 'Situational Awareness ML-Assisted Unmanned Aerial System Traffic Management'

ENSI, University of Manouba, TN

Panel Chairing

Session Chair: Timing Challenges in Cyber-Physical Systems (Oct 2024)

2nd Workshop on Time-Centric Reactive Software (TCRS 2024) at ESWEEK 2024

Miscellaneous

Guest editor of A special issue of Springer journal Real-Time Systems "African Perspectives on Real-Time and Cyber-Physical Systems". (Sep 2026)
Dagstuhl Seminar 19101 Participant (Mar 2019)

Analysis, Design, and Control of Predictable Interconnected Systems, DE.

Member of the DAAD Scholarship Selection Committee (2018)

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Technical Growth
  • ITEC Program: Training Educators on AI Awareness and Technology Integration (Jul 2025), NITTTR, Chennai, India (Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation). 2-week program, 16–29 July 2025
  • Introduction to Augmented Reality and ARCore (May 2021), Google AR & VR (Coursera). Completed course (w/o certificate), Grade 100%
  • Introduction to TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning (May 2020), deeplearning.ai (Coursera). Certificate, Grade 99.28%
  • LoRa Ecosystem - Networking and Workshop (Jan 2019), SUP'COM, TN. 1-day training
Personal Growth
  • Interviews: a method to collect data during the research process (Oct 2019), Christian Achrainer (DAAD funded). 1-day training
  • Effective Cooperation in Teams (Apr 2019), Sonja Drewes (DAAD funded). 1-day training
  • Lean Startup and customer development (Sep 2018), Bob Dorf (Open Startup Tunisia). 2-day training for mentors
  • Self-management (Oct 2018), Heba Salama (DAAD funded). 1-day training
  • Pre-Empting & Managing Conflicts (Nov 2017), Heba Selim (DAAD funded). 1-day training
Volunteering
  • Student Mentor (Mar 2020): Mentoring students at the Hackathon within the International Winter School "IoT meets AI", organized by SUP'COM's IEEE Student Branch
  • Student Mentor (Oct–Nov 2018): Mentoring students: Open Startup Tunisia competition
  • Volunteer (2017) — Cragmont Elementary School, Berkeley, CA
  • Youth Leader and Coordinator (1997 – 2005) — Astronomy club of the Tunisian Association of Youths and Science (AJST): Organized astronomy training sessions and public events
  • Founder and Treasurer (1999 – 2001) — "Andromeda Astronomy Club" at ENIT, University of Tunis El Manar, TN
  • Founder and General-secretary (1997 – 1999) — "Astronomy Club" at IPEIT, TN