Issam Boukabou is an electronics engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center and an adjunct faculty member at Cleveland State University. His research interests include integrating unmanned aerial vehicles into the US National Airspace System, plasma diagnostics for deep-space spacecraft, applying machine learning in robotic space exploration, and quantum AI. He holds a BS in applied mathematics from the University of Abdelmalek Essaadi, a BS in electrical and computer engineering from Ohio State University, and an MS in electrical engineering from Penn State University, and is currently pursuing a PhD in electrical engineering at the University of North Dakota.
Dr. Naima Kaabouch, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor, is the director of the Artificial Intelligence Research (AIR) Center and lead of cybersecurity and data chain in the Research Institute for Autonomous Systems (RIAS) at the University of North Dakota. Her main research interests include artificial intelligence, wireless communication and networking, cybersecurity, sensing, and autonomous systems. She is the PI/CoPI/CoI of numerous grants funded by federal agencies and state sources, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), ND Chamber of Commerce, EPSCoR/NSF, and EPSCoR NASA. She is the author and coauthor of over 250 peer-reviewed journal and proceeding papers, three patents, and the author of four research books and handbooks.
