Wafa Shafqat received the B.S. degree in computer sciences from FAST-NUCES, Islamabad, the M.S. degree from Sangmyung University, under the supervision of professor Hyun-chul Kim, and the Ph.D. degree from the Machine Learning Laboratory in Jeju National University (JNU), under the supervision of professor Yung-Cheol Byun. She successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, in December 2019 and joined JNU as a Faculty Member and a Researcher. Later she joined Konjgu National University as a Postdoctoral fellow and currently works as a lecturer and a Postdoctoral researcher in the Language Technology research group at Universität Hamburg. Her research interests include machine learning applications, natural language processing, information retrieval, recommendation systems, and optimization.