2019–... Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada 2017–2019 Associate Professor, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Canada 2015–2017 Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada 2012–2015 Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Computer Science and Engineering, UQO, Canada 2012–2017 Adjunct Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa 2009–2012 Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Ottawa, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ottawa, Ontario 2004–2009 Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Ottawa, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ottawa, Ontario 2002–2003 M.A.Sc. Electrical Engineering University of Ottawa, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ottawa, Ontario 1996–2001 Dipl. Eng. Systems and Computer Science University “Politehnica” of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania 2014-2015 Teaching Scholarship in Engineering (Bourse d'enseignement, Volet Génie), UQO, Ministère de l'éducation et de l'enseignement supérieur 2010–2011 MITACS Enhanced Accelerate Internship (with PCI Geomatics) 2006–2008 NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS Doctoral) 2006–2008 University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship 2005–2006 OSAP Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2004–2005 University of Ottawa Graduate Admission Scholarship (Ph.D.) 2002 University of Ottawa Graduate Admission Scholarship (M.A.Sc.) 2019 Nomination for the "2020 premium award for best paper of 2019 published in IET Renewable Power Generation Journal", for the article "Particle Swarm Optimization-Based Model and Analysis of Photovoltaic Module Characteristics in Snowy Conditions" (Ph.D. student M. Khenar) 2019 Best poster award offered by the Ottawa Statistical Society for the poster “Recognition of Sitting-down and Standing-up Activities using WiFi Channel State Information", Data Day, Carleton University, Mar. 2019 (Master student: I.O. Joudeh) 2017 Best Paper Finalist Award, IEEE Int. Symp. Robotics and Intelligent Sensors (IRIS), for the paper "3D Object Recognition from Tactile Array Data Acquired at Salient Points" (Master student N. Pedneault) 2016 Best Paper Award, 3rd Int. Electron. Conf. Sensors and Applications for the paper entitled “Iterative Learning for Human Activity Recognition from Wearable Sensor Data” (Ph.D. student J.C. Davila) 2016 University of Ottawa Research Poster Prize (1st prize in Electrical Engineering and 1st prize in the IEEE competition) for “Multimodal Bio-Inspired Tactile Module” (Ph.D. student T.E.A. Oliveira) 2014 Best Paper Award, IEEE Int. Systems Conf. (SysCon), for the paper entitled "An Integrated Vision-Guided Robotic System for Rapid Vehicle Inspection" 2009 Nomination by the thesis committee for a Ph.D. thesis prize 2008 Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Int. Conf. Instrumentation and Measurement Technology for the paper “Selective Vision Sensing Based on Neural Gas Networks” 2008 Student Travel-Grant, IEEE Int. Conf. Instrumentation and Measurement Technology 2008 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Student Ambassador 2008 University of Ottawa Research Travel Grant 2007 Nomination for Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation Student Researcher Award 2007 University of Ottawa Research Poster Prize for “Neural Network Mapping of Elastic Behavior from Tactile and Range Imaging for Virtualized Reality Applications” 2006 University of Ottawa Research Travel Grant 2001 Microsoft Corp. Award for the paper “A Practical Implementation of Clusters” 2019 I. O. Joudeh, A.-M. Cretu, B. Wallace, R. Goubran, A. Alkhalid, A. Minayi Jalil, and M. Allegue, "Methods and Systems for Position Detection Exploiting Wireless Channel State Information", provisional patent US 62/815,459 submitted by Aerial Technologies, Mar. 2019. 2016 T.E.A. Oliveira, E.M. Petriu and A.-M. Cretu, “Multimodal Bio-Inspired Tactile Module for Robot Sense of Touch”, Invention disclosure, University of Ottawa.