Zakaria BENOMAR is a final-year Ph.D. student in Cyber Physical Systems at the Department of Engineering, University of Messina, Italy. His main research interests are currently focused on mobile and distributed systems with particular emphasis on the Internet of Things and its integration within Infrastructure-as-a-Service Clouds, Edge/Fog Computing, and the Web of Things, in support of cyber-physical systems as software-defined Smart City infrastructure. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award at the IEEE international conference on Internet of Things (iThings-2020). He has authored several papers in international journals and conferences and served as reviewer of international conferences. He is member of the team leading the design of Stack4Things, an OpenStack-based Sensing-and-Actuation-as-a-Service framework for I/Oclouds.
