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Research Groups

SMU Research groups are built to interact and identify challenges and explore new insights to co-produce high quality research. These groups also bring together faculty and research students with similar research interests to develop ideas, undertake projects and share expertise.

The main idea behind the work of these Research groups is to value the contribution of SMU to organizations. They are built to interact and engage with industry, build partnerships, identify challenges and explore new insights to co-produce solutions for them.

SIM LAB

Since its creation in 2018, Software Improvement Laboratory (SIM) has been dedicating its efforts to all software engineering activities from developing, designing, and testing the software to researching new techniques, approaches and technologies.

In the broad field of Software Engineering, the main research areas SIM focuses on are:

Software verification and validation
Software Refactoring
Software Measurement

SIM’s interests include collaborating with large industrial players. One of its major collaborations is with Sama Partner, a German IT company.

Keywords:

MedTech Research Group Software engineering Computer science Génie logiciel Master génie logiciel Licence informatique

Team Members:

Amine Ben Hassouna

Dorra Louati

Heger Arfaoui, PhD

Imed Hammouda, PhD

Jihen Bennaceur, PhD

Salma Hamza, Ph.D.

Syrine Ben Meskina Mkaouar, PhD

SERG

As the only university that provides the renewable energy engineering program, it is Medtech’s obligation to enhance the faculty and scholars’ knowledge in the field. This obligation is pursued through the research unit, Sustainable Energy Research Group (SERG). SERG’s mission is to study and analyze the efficiency of cutting-edge renewable energy technologies, namely microalgal-biofuel technologies, energy efficiency in buildings and materials for renewable energy applications.

Keywords:

MedTech Research Group Renewable Energy Engineering Sustainability Energy Management Génie Energies Renouvelables Master Energy Management and Sustainability Master Gestion de l’Energie et Développement Durable

Team Members:

Houda Nsir, Ph.D.

Lamia Bouaziz, PhD

Leila Costelle, PhD

Nejib Chennoufi, PhD

Rim Gharbi, PhD

Walid Ben Haj Othman, PhD

I-ACT

The main scope of the “Innovation on Advanced Computer Technologies” (I-ACT) Research Group is to innovate in the field of Computer Systems Engineering.

Our research incorporates various aspects on designing and optimizing secured systems such as: Cybersecurity, Computer Network, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Robotics, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), precision farming, localization, Internet of Thing (IoT), Optimization of complex systems and secure distributed systems.

Keywords:

MedTech Research Group Computer Network Cybersecurity Blockchain Artificial Intelligence(AI) Machine Learning (ML) Robotics Precision farming Localization Optimization of complex systems Secure distributed systems

Team Members:

Hanen Ahmadi, PhD

Hichem Kallel, PhD

Jihen Bennaceur, PhD

Mohamed Amin Ben Sassi, PhD

Nejib Chennoufi, PhD

Noura Baccar, PhD

Mitacs

The Canadian non-profit organization, Mitacs, has been successfully designing and delivering research and training programs since 1999. Over the past 20 years, Mitacs has funded more than 20,000 research projects, trained more than 33,000 students and postdocs, and supported more than 3,600 international research collaborations.

Mitacs’ mission is to connect industries with universities and colleges for the purpose of solving business challenges. Through Medtech, SMU was able to establish a partnership with one of Mitac’s Programs, Globallink, to carry out joint industrial and academic research projects. The program includes two exchange initiatives; Globalink Research Internship (GRI), a 12-week internship for undergraduate students at their final years of studies enrolled full-time in a Tunisian university, and Globalink Research Award (GRA), a 12-24-week-internship designed for undergraduate students at their final years of studies, as well as master’s, Ph. D. students and postdoctoral fellows with full-time affiliations in a Tunisian university.
For more details about the SMU-Mitacs partnership and the exchange mobility between Tunisia and Canada through Mitacs, kindly contact: Yasmine Guefrachi, Ph. D. (Assistant Professor at MedTech) at yasmine.guefrachi@medtech.tn

Keywords:

MedTech Research Group MSB Research Group