Hugues Tchouankem is a full professor of Distributed Systems in the Department of Information Technology at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Germany. He also serves as a senior research scientist and project leader in the corporate research and development department at Robert Bosch GmbH. In addition to his roles in academia and industry, he has taught part-time at the Department of Business and Informatics at Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts, where he instructed both Bachelor’s and Master’s students in the course “Vehicular Communication (V2X)”. His research interests encompass distributed systems, computer networks, mobile and vehicular communication, with an increasing emphasis on integrating artificial intelligence into mobile networks.