BESMA ZEDDINI is an associate professor in computer science at CY Cergy Paris University, CYTech since 2012, where she is co-leader of the engineering program in Cybersecurity and Smart Systems and head of the IoT M.Sc. program. She is a researcher at SATIE laboratory CNRS- UMR 8029, ENS Paris-Saclay, France. She received a M.Sc. degree and a Ph.D. degree in computer science and artificial intelligence from the University of Le Havre and the ENSI engineering school, in 2006 and 2009 respectively. She has been assistant professor at University of Evry and ESIGELEC engineering school for 3 years, then researcher at IFSTTAR for one year. Besma Zeddini is mainly interested in distributed artificial intelligence, intelligent transportation systems, cybersecurity and internet of things. She is member of the reviewer board of several international conferences, and member of the TPC of IEEE AICCSA, IEEE ITSC, KES AMSTA, etc. Since 2014, she has been committee member of the RobAFIS competition. Between 2014 and 2017, she was co-leader of the PLACIS project (Collaborative platform of Systems Engineering) at CY Tech (ex-EISTI)