Noemie Sellam Balouka received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics and finance from the University Paris Dauphine, Paris, France, in 2005; the M.Sc. degree in industrial engineering and management (statistics) from the Technion in 2013. She received her Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering and management from the Technion in 2019. During her Ph.D. studies, Noemie received several awards for her work; including an award from the Israel PMI (Project Management Institute) in 2014 for her research proposal and the first prizes for the best paper competition in the International PMS (Project Management and Scheduling) Conference in 2017 and in the Israeli Industrial and Engineering Management Conference in 2019. Before joining the Technion, she worked as a financial engineer in the investments department of the French multinational insurance company, Axa, France. She completed a post-doc position at the Technion within an EIT (European Institute of Innovation & Technology) project on green last-mile delivery. This project was conducted in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, the University of Warsaw and a Belgian retail company. Since May 2020, she have worked at the Technion Research and Development Foundation as a researcher.