Dr. Ahmed Boubrima is a permanent/tenured faculty researcher at INRIA (AGORA team, Lyon, France) since October 2023 with research interests in sensor networks, drone networks, wireless sensing, and environmental sensing.
Prior to his current position, he was the Lead Postdoc of the ASTRO project (2019-2022) at Rice University (Texas, USA), where he worked on autonomous data-driven mobile sensing via networked drones.
Ahmed did his Ph.D. at the CITI-lab in Lyon as he worked between 2015 and 2019 on building an energy-efficient sensing platform for air quality monitoring. During his Ph.D., he was also a teaching assistant at INSA-Lyon and a visiting researcher at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Ahmed received the master's and engineering degrees in computer science from the École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, Algiers, in 2015.
Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Ahmed Boubrima and Edward W. Knightly. FALCON: a Networked Drone System for Sensing, Localizing, and Approaching RF targets. In IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022.
Ahmed Boubrima and Edward W. Knightly. Robust Environmental Sensing using UAVs. In ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, 2021.
Ahmed Boubrima, Walid Bechkit and Hervé Rivano. On the Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks for Air Quality Mapping: Optimization Models and Algorithms. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2019.
Ahmed Boubrima, Walid Bechkit and Hervé Rivano. Optimal WSN Deployment Models for Air Pollution Monitoring. In IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2017.
Ahmed Boubrima, Walid Bechkit, Hervé Rivano and Lionel Soulhac. UrMapSens: Joint Mapping-Sensing Design of Wireless Sensor Networks for Urban Environmental Monitoring. (Under review)
Ahmed Boubrima, Walid Bechkit and Hervé Rivano. On the Optimization of WSN Deployment for Sensing Physical Phenomena: Applications to Urban Air Pollution Monitoring, A book chapter to appear in the Springer's Edited Textbook entitled 'The Philosophy of Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor Networks', 2019.
Ahmed Boubrima, Zhambyl Shaikhanov and Edward W. Knightly. Toward Accurate Environmental Mapping using Balloon-based UAVs. To appear in the 2024 IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2024), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Ahmed Boubrima and Edward W. Knightly. Autonomous Drone Networks for Sensing, Localizing and Approaching RF Targets. In the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2020 (IEEE VNC 2020).
Ahmed Boubrima and Edward W. Knightly. Robust Mission Planning of UAV Networks for Environmental Sensing, In the 6th ACM Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications (ACM DroNet@MobiSys 2020), Toronto, Canada (Best paper award).
Ahmed Boubrima, Azzedine Boukerche, Walid Bechkit and Hervé Rivano. WSN Scheduling for Energy-Efficient Correction of Environmental Modelling, In the 15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2018), Chengdu, China.
Ahmed Boubrima, Walid Bechkit, Hervé Rivano and Lionel Soulhac. Leveraging the Potential of WSN for an Efficient Correction of Air Pollution Fine-Grained Simulations, In the 27th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2018), Hangzhou, China.
Ahmed Boubrima, Walid Bechkit and Hervé Rivano. A New WSN Deployment Approach for Air Pollution Monitoring, In the 14th IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2017), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Ahmed Boubrima, Walid Bechkit and Hervé Rivano. Error-Bounded Air Quality Mapping Using Wireless Sensor Networks, In the 41st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2016), Dubai, UAE.
Ahmed Boubrima, Walid Bechkit and Hervé Rivano. Optimal Deployment of Dense WSN for Error Bounded Air Pollution Mapping, In the 12th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2016), Washington, DC, USA.
Ahmed Boubrima, Frédéric Matigot, Walid Bechkit, Hervé Rivano and Anne Ruas. Optimal Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks for Air Pollution Monitoring, In the 24th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2015), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Ahmed Boubrima, Walid Bechkit, Hervé Rivano and Anne Ruas. Wireless Sensor Networks Deployment for Air Pollution Monitoring, In the 21st International Transport and Air Pollution Conference (TAP 2016), Lyon, France.
Ahmed Boubrima, Walid Bechkit, Hervé Rivano and Lionel Soulhac. Cost-precision Tradeoffs in 3d Air Pollution Mapping using WSN, In the Second International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNET 2016), Casablanca, Morocco (Best paper award).
Ahmed Boubrima. Mieux respirer en ville grâce aux capteurs low-cost, Blog Binaire, Le Monde, March 2020.
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Teaching at the Telecommunications Department of INSA Lyon: