He is the recipient of several national and international awards, including IEEE Canada C.C.
His present research focus is digital twins with five pillars: artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, IoT and aocial network, multimodal interactions, and quality of experience powered communication networks (5G and tactile internet).
Dr El Saddik has been on technical program committees of numerous IEEE and ACM events.
He has been the general chair and/or technical program chair of multiple international conferences, symposia and workshops on collaborative hapto-audio-visual environments, multimedia communications, and instrumentation and measurements.
He is at present the director of Multimedia Communication Research Laboratory.