Event Chairs

Ladjel Bellatreche National Engineering School for Mechanics and Aerotechnics France

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Ladjel Bellatreche is an Exceptional Class Full Professor at the National Engineering School for Mechanics and Aerotechnics (ISAE-ENSMA) in Poitiers, France, since 2010. He previously served as an Assistant and Associate Professor at Poitiers University and is currently a Part-time Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China. He has held various visiting positions at international institutions in Australia, Canada, the USA, and China.
Professor Bellatreche’s research covers data science, artificial intelligence, knowledge graphs, query-answering systems, recommender systems, and large language models, with a strong emphasis on query performance and energy efficiency. He has authored over 360 publications in leading international conferences and journals. He has led research teams and played major roles in international conferences such as ADBIS, CoopIS, ER, DaWaK, and IEEE Big Data. He serves as Associate Editor for Data and Knowledge Engineering (Elsevier) and Knowledge and Information Systems Journal (Springer), and is a member of the steering committees of several international conferences, including ER, ADBIS, DOLAP, MEDES, and BDA. He is also active on editorial boards and program committees, and has (co)-supervised 37 PhD students. His work spans multiple application domains, including aeronautics, urban computing, medicine, the film industry, and sustainable development ... More >>

Ali Ouni École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS Montreal) Canada

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Brahim Medjahed The University of Michigan - Dearborn United States

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Cesare Pautasso University of Lugano (USI) Switzerland

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Noura Faci Université Lyon 1 France

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Elhadj Benkhelifa Staffordshire University United Kingdom

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Elhadj Benkhelifa is a Full Professor of Computer Science and the Head of Professoriate at Staffordshire University. He is also the founding Director of the Smart Systems, AI and Cybersecurity Research Centre. Elhadj research areas cover cloud computing and applications in its centralised and decentralised forms (Fog/Edge computing, Cloudlet, Blockchain etc), Software Defined Systems. Service Computing, Cybersecurity, Data (Governance, Semantics, analytics, Social Networks), Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering methods. Elhadj has been a keynote speaker to many international venues and has edited a nu mber of conference proceedings and special editions of Scientific Journals. He has published 150+ research papers in conferences and journals and has been the Principal Investigator of a number of collaborative projects and chaired many prominent IEEE conferences. Elhadj is the Chair of the IEEE UK&I Section’s Education office and sits on the West Midland Cyber Resilience Centre’s Advisory Board. Elhadj is Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and Prince2 Practitioner. ... More >>

Narjes Bessghaier ÉTS Montreal, University of Quebec Canada

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Narjes Bessghaier holds a Ph.D. in Software Engineering (2025) and is a lecturer at École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Canada (2025). Her research focuses on AI-driven recommendation systems for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), with an emphasis on improving software quality, security, and developer productivity in DevOps environments. She authored 12 peer-reviewed publications in leading software engineering venues, including SANER, MSR, TOSEM, EMSE, JSS, and ESEM. She actively contributes to the research community through service on the program committee, as a reviewer for multiple conferences and journals, and by volunteering at various academic events. Throughout her academic career, she has received multiple awards and has been nominated for the PhD Excellence Award 2025. Her long-term vision is to advance trustworthy and secure IaC automation practices at the intersection of software engineering and AI for DevOps. ... More >>

Dong Wang Tianjin University China

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Lamia Berkani Faculty of Informatics, USTHB University Algeria

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Lamia Berkani is an Associate Professor in computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Sciences, Faculty of Informatics, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB, Algiers, Algeria). She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Higher School of Computer Sciences (ESI, Algiers, Algeria) in 2014. Dr Berkani is a member of the NLP and Machine Learning group, Laboratory for Research in Artificial Intelligence (LRIA) at the USTHB University. Her research interests include Recommender Systems, Social Recommendation, Community Detection, Profi ling, Machine Learning and Deep learning. ... More >>

SamiR Ouchani CESI France

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Montassar Ben Messaoud LARODEC, Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis Tunisia

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