Before joining the SSE at AUI she was doing her Ph.D at the Software Engineering Group (GÉLO) at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (IRO) at University of Montreal (UdeM). She got her Ph.D in Software Engineering from UdeM in 2002, under the supervison of Professor Rudolf Keller and Professor Francois Lustman. She received a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Laval University, in 1997, while she was conducting her research at the Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Montréal (CRIM). She also holds an Engineering Degree in Computer Science from the Ecole National d'ingénieurs de Monastir (ENIM) in 1994, in Tunisia.