Prof. Hajar Moudoud is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada. She holds a B.Eng. in Software Engineering from the Mohammadia School of Engineers, Rabat, Morocco (2018), and dual Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, and the University of Technology of Troyes, France, both awarded in 2022. Before joining UQO, she held research scientist positions at several institutions, where she contributed to projects focusing on network security using machine learning. Her research interests include IoT security, machine and deep learning for intrusion detection, and blockchain-based security solutions for next-generation networks.