Mr Anass Berouine defended, on the 24th July 2023 at 4pm (ENSIAS), his PhD thesis entitled “Predictive Control Approaches Using IoT and Big Data Technologies for Smart and Energy-Efficient Buildings: Application to Thermal and Indoor Air Quality Management”. Anass’s thesis work was conducted between UIR and ENSIAS under the supervision of M. Essaaidi (ENSIAS), R. Ouladsine (UIR) and M. Bakhouya (UIR). Anass has spent almost 5 years (2018-2022) working on the project CASANET (Context‐Aware Sensor‐Actuator Networks for Energy‐Efficient Buildings) project (2016‐20120), which is funded by « le Ministere de l’Enseignement Superieur, de la Recherche Scientifique et de la Formation des Cadres (MESRSFC) » and « le Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST) » and 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).