From October 2015 to September 2016: Post-doctoral position in Software Engineering and Computer Security at Polytechnique Montreal under the supervision of Dr. Gabriela Nicolescu.

From January 2014 to March 2015: Post-doctoral position in Computer Security at Queen's University under the supervision of Dr. Mohammad Zulkernine.

December 2013: Ph.D. degree in Software Engineering from University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

October 2009: M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from University of Tunis, Tunisia.

October 2007: Engineer's degree in Computer Science from University of Tunis, Tunisia.

July 2003: B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Lycée Sadikie, Tunis, Tunisia.

Total value from 2008 to 2017 = 290000$.

2017-2018 The Cyber Security Cooperation Program grant from the Canadian Government. Value = 20000$.

2017-2018 The Canada-Alberta Grant for Research Analysis from the Government of Canada and the Government of Alberta. Value = 10000$.

2015-2017 MITACS Elevate Canada Research Scholarship in Computer Security for two years with Ubitrak inc. and Polytechnique Montreal. Value = 120000$.

2014-2015 MITACS Accelerate Canada Research Scholarship in Web and Mobile Computing. Value = 15000$.

2012-2013 Doctoral Scholarship in Computer Science from the University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Value = 12000$.

2012-2013 Research and development Grants Quebec-Wallonie in Computer Science. Value = 5000$.

2009-2013 Excellence Scholarship in Computer Science from the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technology, Tunisia. Value = 50000$.

2009-2013 Doctoral Foreign Scholarship in Computer Science from the University of Montreal. Value = 50000$.

2008-2009 Exchange Scholarship in Web and Mobile Computing from the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technology, Tunisia. Value = 5000$.

2008-2009 Research Internship Scholarship in Web and Mobile Computing from the University of Laval, Quebec, Canada. Value = 3000$.

Knowledge translation / Dissemination activities: I have had excellent opportunities to teach a variety of software engineering courses in both French and English in three universities: Concordia University of Edmonton, Université de Montréal and the École polytéchnique de Montréal. I follow both a scientific and a practical approach to software engineering when teaching and tutoring students to prepare them for their future work. For example, I helped undergraduate students to understand computational approaches to problem solving and monitoring their projects. I also helped graduate and undergraduate students to appreciate and use the fundamental design principles of modularity and abstraction in a variety of contexts from computer science. Last but not least, I supervised students in the lab to enable them to develop programs that support experimentation, simulation and exploration in other parts of the Informatics curriculum (e.g., the capacity to implement, test and observe a particular algorithm).

Participation in the organization of international conferences, meetings, and symposiums: I have been invited to serve during the organization of the International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST'2012). I participated also on the local arrangement of the Canadian Summer School on Practical Analysis of Software Engineering Data (PASED'2011), to which 65 students and professors participated and which featured keynotes by speakers from the academia and industry, including: Marc-André Decoste from Google Montréal; Prem Devanbu from University of California Davis; Gail C. Murphy from University of British Columbia; Alain Picard from Benchmark Consulting; and, Kal Murtaja from SAP Labs Montréal. In the Queen's University, I was selected to be a member of the evaluation group for Best research in 2014 (we evaluated several projects for more than 20 candidates).

Evaluation of articles for scientific, literary or artistic journals: I have been invited as reviewer for all major software engineering journals and conferences: Wiley JSME, Springer EMSE, Software Quality Journal SQJO, Springer Journal of Automated Software Engineering, the International Conference on Software Security and Reliability SERE, the IEEE International Computers, Software, and Applications Conference COMPSAC, the IEEE CSMR, IEEE ICPC, IEEE ICSM, IEEE WCRE, etc.

Presentations as guest speaker: I also gave keynotes or talks at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium in 2012, at the University of Waterloo in Ontario in October 2013, at the Queen's Reliable Software Technology GROUP in Kingston in January 2014, and at the University of Montreal (4 times from 2011 to 2013). After these presentations, my research activities also attracted the attention of academic and industrial colleagues. Thus, I developed collaborations with several top researchers, among many: Bram Adams, Guiliano Antoniol, Massimiliano Di Penta, Daniel M. German, Andrian Marcus, Rocco Oliveto, Denys Poshyvanyk, Filippo Ricca, Paolo Tonella, etc., which led to publications in top venues.

Experience in industrial or other workplace: I am currently actively pursuing the development of further collaborations with several companies.
- From March 2015: The specification of a methodology to detect anomalies and security vulnerabilities using message logs analysis. The first step was to analyse the different possible forms of a log message in order to understand the complete domain from which the messages must be interpreted. The next step was to specify the different log patterns in accordance with previous work and with known anomalies in log messages. Then, we used big data analytic to discover abnormal log occurrences which could identify anomalies and improve the Software Security Assurance.
- From June 2014: The creation of a new nomenclature and teaching system for music that makes the process of learning, playing, and teaching music much easier and faster using Big Data Analytic. This project is a part of a MITACS research internship program with industrial partners.
- Qualified proctor at The Linux Professional Institute since June 2008.
- Web master of several professional and academic websites since 2009.
- From October 2007 to September 2009, secondary school teacher at Zahrouni School, Tunis, Tunisia.
- The creation of the information system of the chain stores Couffin Bio in Montreal (2010-2014).
- The design and implementation of a system of documents and work-flow management for Francophone Digital Campus in Tunis (2006-2007).
- The analysis and management of information system of the chain stores Nahdi Tunisia (2007-2009).