Genane Youness, Ph.D., is currently an associate professor and AI researcher at LINEACT Laboratory (Laboratoire d'Innovation Numérique pour les entreprises et l'Apprentissage pour la Compétitivité des Territoires)). Dr. Youness is an associate researcher at the MSDMA-CEDRIC Laboratory - CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers) in Paris, since 2021. In 2004, she was a lecturer and head of the statistics department for 16 years at CNAM in Lebanon. Dr. Youness holds a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from the Faculty of Science of the Lebanese University in 1998, a Master’s degree and a PhD in Statistics from the University Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Paris VI) in 2000 and 2004 respectively. Her research activities concerned the comparison of close partitions, data mining and machine learning theory and its applications. Her current research efforts are focused on data-driven predictive maintenance using artificial intelligence and explainable artificial intelligence.