Najoua Essoukri Ben Amara received a B.Sc., M.S., Ph.D., and HDR in Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing, System Analysis, and Pattern Recognition from the National School of Engineers of Tunis, University El Manar, Tunisia, in 1985, 1986, 1999, and 2004, respectively. She became senior lecturer in July 2004 and full Professor in October 2009 in Electrical Engineering at the National School of Engineers of Sousse ENISo, University of Sousse, Tunisia. She is a founding member and director of the research group SAGE (Systèmes Avancés en Genie Electrique). From July 2008 to July 2011, she was the director of ENISo. She has a wide national and international visibility, as the chair of several national committees and chair/co-chair of various international scientific conferences. She acts in many program committees and belongs to several scientific ones. She was the coordinator of several European projects (Euromed 3+3 and Tempus). She initiated multiple collaborations with international research laboratories and socio-economic organizations. Since 2011, she is the President of the Tunisian Association of Innovative Techniques of Sousse. Her areas of research include pattern recognition, document analysis, multimodal biometrics, medical image processing, and computer vision, with applications to the segmentation of documents, biometric recognition, individuals, and detection/monitoring multi-object and authored/co-authored over 100 articles in various national publications.