She is also a director of the Scientific Collaboration Research Program in conjunction with PReCISE Research Centre at the University of Namur in Belgium. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from INRIA-LORIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) & University of Lorraine in France, 2007. Prior to her current position, she was an FNRS (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique) researcher at PReCISE Research Centre (2011 - 2014). Previously, she worked as a Post Doctoral researcher at Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre in Sweden (2009 - 2011) and at United Nations University - International Institute for Software Technology in Macau (2008 - 2009).