She holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Ottawa, Canada, and the Doctorat de Spécialité in Computer Science from the University of Tunis, Tunisia. Wenkstern is the director of the Multi Agent and Visualization Systems lab. Her research projects are sponsored by several organizations including the National Science Foundation, Sandia National Laboratories, Rockwell Collins and the Department of Education. Wenkstern has served on several international conference organizing committees and numerous program committees. She worked as a consultant for U.S. and European organizations. She is the CEO of ZW Corp, a startup specializing in the development of web-based multi-agent systems and the director of the Executive Masters of Science in Software Engineering program at UT Dallas. She is the recipient of the school’s Teaching Excellence Award.