She is also a member of the Data Mining and Security (DMaS) Lab at the School of Information Studies at McGill University where she had the privilege of working with Dr. Benjamin C. M. Fung as a postdoc fellow. Latifa received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computing and Software Engineering (DGIGL) of Polytechnique Montreal, Canada. Her research work/interests involves empirical software engineering, software analytics, data mining, and big data software engineering. Latifa is serving as an organizing and program committee member for several international conferences and workshops including ICSME'16, ICSME'15, SANER'15, SWAN'15, ICSM'14, SCAM'14, MSR'14/13, WCRE'13/12, ICST'12, etc. She is a member of ACM and IEEE.