Mr Abdelhak Kharbouch defended, on the 2nd February 2023 at 3pm (UMI), his PhD thesis entitled “Internet-of-Things based Hardware-in-the-Loop Framework for Smart and Energy Efficient Buildings”. Abdelhak’s thesis work was conducted between the UIR and the UMI under the supervision of M. El Ouadghiri (UMI) and M. Bakhouya (UIR). Abdelhak has spent almost 5 years (2018-2022) working on the project MIGRID « Towards Smart Microgrids: Renewable Energy Integration into Smart Buildings», which was funded by the USAID under the PEER program Cycle 5 – 398 (2017-2021) and then HOLSYS “A Holistic IoT and Big Data Platform for Smart Building Energy Management Systems”, which is funded by IRESEN under the Green INNO-PROJECT 2018 Call (2020-2023).