Mr Hamza Elkhoukhi has defended, on 10th December 2022, his PhD thesis entitled Real-time machine learning approaches for occupancy detection in smart buildings. Hamza’s thesis work was conducted between the UIR and the UMI under the supervision of M. El Ouadghiri (UMI), Mrs. Hanifi (UIR) and M. Bakhouya (UIR). Hamza 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).

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