Prof. Jaafar GABER

Prof. Jaafar Gaber is a Full Professor at the Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM) and a senior researcher at the FEMTO-ST Institute (CNRS UMR 6174), France. He currently serves as Head of International Affairs at FEMTO-ST, coordinating the institute’s global partnerships and strategic research collaborations.

His research bridges artificial intelligence, physics-based computation, and programmable matter, focusing on distributed intelligent systems (DiMEMS), post-quantum security, and adaptive smart materials. Through an interdisciplinary approach, he aims to design autonomous, energy-efficient, and reconfigurable systems where matter itself can sense, compute, and adapt. His work contributes to the advancement of 6G networks, IoT infrastructures, and quantum-resilient AI architectures.

Prof. Gaber has coordinated and contributed to numerous national and European research projects (FP6, FP7, H2020, ANR, EACEA Agency, Horizon Europe) and collaborates actively with academic and industrial partners in Europe, Asia, and North America. He has authored and co-authored over 150 scientific publications, including more than 60 journal papers, 10 book chapters, 2 books, and more than 12 patents, one of which (PCT/EP2022/079098) was filed with SATT Grand Est.

He is Treasurer of IEEE France, a member of IEEE and ACM, and serves on the editorial boards of journals such as the Journal of Computer Networks and Communications (Wiley). He also acts as an expert evaluator in France, EU and outside EU, such as ANR, EU MSCA, EU Chips JU, EU Costs, QRDI (Qatar), JSC (Kazakhstan), and the Latvian Council of Science.

In education, Prof. Gaber leads the first year of the Computer Engineering cycle at UTBM and teaches Data Science, Blockchain and Distributed Systems, and Parallel Computing and HPC, integrating NVIDIA and Google Cloud certifications.

Research Interests:

• Data Science and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
• Programmable Matter and Distributed Intelligent MEMS (DiMEMS)
• Network Architectures, IoT, and Signal Processing
• Physics-Inspired and Multi-Physics Computation
• Quantum and Post-Quantum Computing and Security

Google Scholar:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=C_QPZS8AAAAJ&hl=vi&oi=ao