MAROUA BEN ATTIA is leading in research and development activities as R&D director at Humanitas Solutions. She received the B.Eng. degree (Hons.) in telecommunications engineering from the National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Tunisia, in 2013, and the M.Sc. degree (Hons.) in information technology engineering from the École de Technologie supérieure (ÉTS), University of Quebec, Montreal, QC, Canada, in 2015, where she received the Ph.D degree (Hons.) in Computer Science and Engineering. Her research interests include network optimization, IoT, cloud computing, machine learning and smart city.