Dr. Hamed Tabkhi, a professor at UNC Charlotte and keynote speaker for the 2024 Smart & Connected Communities PI Meeting, is at the forefront of revolutionizing public safety through innovative applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in the NSF’s Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) program and beyond.

The International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2024) was held at the Osaka International Convention Center in Osaka, Japan from 29th JUNE through 2nd July, 2024. SMARTCOMP is the premier conference on smart computing. Smart computing is a multidisciplinary domain based on the synergistic influence of advances in sensor-based technologies, Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, edge computing, big data analytics, machine learning, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence.