Mehdi Adda received two M.Sc. degrees in computer science from Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France, in 2002 and the Université du Havre, Le Havre, France, in 2003; an engineering degree in computer science from the Université des Sciences et Technologies Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria, in 2001; and two Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, and the Université de Lille, Lille, France, in 2008. He has been a professor of computer science at the Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, QC, Canada, since June 2010, after he became an invited professor from August 2008 to May 2010. He has been working on multidisciplinary projects centred around data science and artificial intelligence, IoT, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality at the service of immersive distance learning.