Alia Ghaddar earned her Master's degree in Computer Science, with thesis research conducted in collaboration with the Computer science Research Institute of Lens in France. She later joined the POPS (Portable Objects Proved to be Safe) project team, as a PhD student, an international research collaboration involving INRIA, the University of Lille 1, and CNRS. Currently, she is the Head of the Computer Science and Information Technology Department and an Associate Professor at the Lebanese International University (LIU). She also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Chicoutimi in Canada. Her research interests include wireless sensor networks, the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, knowledge discovery, and uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs).