She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Poitiers (France) in 1998. After four years at the University of Le Havre (France), she joined in 2002 the CEDRIC Lab of CNAM where she worked on real-time and embedded systems. She is the co-author of many books (Operating Systems, Smart Cards, and Identity Management Systems). Her current research areas cover service architecture and security in mobile cloud computing, internet of things, and virtualization.