Dr. Abdelkrim HAQIQ has a High Study Degree (Diplôme des Etudes Supérieures de troisième cycle) and a PhD (Doctorat d'Etat), both in the field of modeling and performance evaluation of computer communication networks, from the University of Mohammed V, Agdal, Faculty of Sciences, Rabat, Morocco. Since September 1995 he has been working as a Professor at the department of Mathematics and Computer at the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Settat, Morocco. He is the Director of Computer, Networks, Mobility and Modeling laboratory. He is also the General Secretary of the electronic Next Generation Networks (e-NGN) Research Group, Moroccan section.

Dr. Abdelkrim HAQIQ's interests lie in the areas of modeling and performance evaluation of communication networks, cloud computing and security. He is the author and co-author of more than 120 papers (international journals and conferences/workshops). He was a General Co-Chair of the sixth international conference on Next Generation Networks and Services, held in Rabat, Morocco, December 16 - 18, 2016. He was also a General Co-Chair of the 3th International Afro-European Conference for Industrial Advancement: AECIA'16, the 16th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems: HIS'16 and the 8th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing: NaBIC'16, held conjointly in Marrakesh, Morocco, November 21-23, 2016.

He was also a General Co-Chair of the 11th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security: IAS’2015, the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications: ISDA’2015 and the 5th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies: WICT’2015, held conjointly in Marrakesh, Morocco, December 14-16, 2015. He was a publication co-chair of the fifth international conference on Next Generation Networks and Services, held in Casablanca, May, 28 - 30, 2014. He was also an International Steering Committee Chair and TPC Chair of the international conference on Engineering Education and Research 2013, iCEER2013, held in Marrakesh, Morocco, July, 1 –5, 2013, and a TPC Co-Chair of the fourth international conference on Next Generation Networks and Services, held in Algarve, Portugal, December, 2 - 4, 2012. Dr. Abdelkrim HAQIQ was the General Chair of the second international conference on Next Generation Networks and Services, held in Marrakech, Morocco, July, 8- 10, 2010. He is also a TPC member and a reviewer for many international conferences and some international journals. He was also a Guest Editor of a special issue on Next Generation Networks and Services of the International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications (IJMCMC), July-September 2012, Vol. 4, No. 3, and a special issue of the Journal of Mobile Multimedia (JMM), Vol. 9, No.3&4, 2014.

From January 1998 to December 1998 he had a Post-Doctoral Research appointment at the department of Systems and Computers Engineering at Carleton University in Canada. He also has held visiting positions at the High National School of Telecommunications of Paris, the Universities of Dijon and Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines in France, the University of Ottawa in Canada and the FUCAM in Belgium .