Adel Belkhiri received his Ph.D. in computer engineering from Polytechnique Montréal in 2021. He is currently a research associate at the DORSAL laboratory at Polytechnique Montréal. His main research interests include developing software support to improve application performance, diagnosing faults, and enhancing observability in distributed systems. Adel focuses on addressing tracing and profiling challenges in computer networks and actively contributes to the open-source project Trace Compass, where he develops new analysis features.