Yassine Himeur (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 2011 and 2015, respectively. Following his doctoral studies, he received the Habilitation to Direct Research, which granted him the official authorization to supervise research, in 2017. He is currently an Assistant Professor of engineering and information technology with the University of Dubai, Dubai, UAE. From 2013 to 2019, he held the position of a Senior Researcher with the Algerian Center for Development of Advanced Technologies, where he was also the Head of the TELECOM Division during 2018–2019. His academic journey led him to join the faculty with the University of Dubai, after serving as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Qatar University during 2019–2022. Throughout his career, he has been actively involved in conducting R&D projects and has played a significant role in proposing and co-leading several research proposals under the NPRP grant (QNRF, Qatar). With more than 120 research publications in high-impact venues, he has made valuable contributions to the field. His research interests include Big Data and IoTs, AI/ML/DL, healthcare technologies, digital twins, metaverse, recommender systems, smart grid, building energy management, smart buildings, NLP, generative AI, and cybersecurity. He was the recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 11th IEEE SIGMAP in Austria in 2014.