Dr Ryma Abassi is Associate Professor at ISETCOM and the Director of the Institute, too (the first female ever). She is also a researcher at SUP’COM, Tunisia. She obtained the SSHN (Séjour Scientifique de Haut Niveau) grant two times in 2014 and 2017 and was a visiting professor at University of Limoges, France. In 2017, Dr Ryma Abassi received the prestigious Fulbright visiting scholarship at Tufts University, MA, USA. In 2024, she was listed in the 2024 SIA Women in Security Forum (WISF) Power 100 Honorees as well as in the Security's Top Cybersecurity Leaders 2024. In November 2022, she was recognized as one of the TOP 3 researcher in cybersecurity in the Middle East by the WiCSME, in July 2020, she was recognized as one of the TOP 50 women in cybersecurity in Africa and in September 2020 as the best young researcher in Computer science in Tunisia by the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts. Her current research work is focusing on cybersecurity, MANET/VANET security, trust management, security protocols validation, IoT security, artificial intelligence, etc. She has more than 70 publications in impacted journals and classified conferences and is currently co-supervising ten PhD students. In 2018, Dr Abassi edited three books : “Security Frameworks in Contemporary Electronic Government” , “Artificial Intelligence and Security Challenges in Emerging Networks” and “Cybersecurity Crisis Management and Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic".