Fatma Bouabdallah received the M.S. degree in network and computer science from the University of Paris VI, France, in 2006 and the PhD degree in computer science from the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Rennes, in 2008. In 2010, she was with the University of Waterloo, Canada as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She was an Associate Professor at King AbdulAziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 2012 until 2024. She is currently a Lecturer in the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at the University of Plymouth. In 2022, she received her HDR (Habilitation A Diriger Des Recherches) degree from University of Paris-Est, France. In 2023, she obtained her Professorship Qualification from the French Ministry of Education. Her research interests include sensing, IoT design, SAGSIN 6G, wireless sensor networks, underwater acoustic sensor networks, crosslayer design, and modeling and performance evaluation of computer networks.