Prof. Dr. Ing. Narjès Bellamine Ben Saoud is currently Director (Dean) of the National School of Computer Science (ENSI– Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l’Infomatique), part of the University of Manouba (http://www.uma.tn), Tunisia. Elected, in December 2017, for a first mandate of three years; and re-elected for a second mandate since December 2020. In fact, ENSI (80 faculty, 48 staff, 800 students, 3 departments, 4 research structures) is the first Engineering School of Tunisia dedicated to Computer science, since its foundation in 1984. As the Head of ENSI, she is responsible for the pedagogic, scientific as well as administrative and financial management of the institution. She also serves as Chair of the Scientific Council of the school, President of the computer science “Habilitation Universitaire” committee of the university and Chair of the Committee of engineering studies entrance examination.
She is also newly elected (since October 2021) as director of the at the RIADI Laboratory (SoftwaRe engIneering, Applied, Distributed and Intelligent computer science research Laboratory, in French Laboratoire de Recherche en génie logIciel & en Informatique Appliquée, Distribuée et Intelligente). In fact, RIADI (70 senior researchers & faculty, ~ research doctoral or master students) is among the first and biggest Tunisian Computer science research laboratories, since its foundation in 1999.
She is currently a Professor in the Department of Decision and Information Systems, at ENSI, and a researcher at the RIADI Laboratory, at the ENSI. She is teaching Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence related courses.
Dr Ing. Narjès BELLAMINE BEN SAOUD has received her engineering diploma and master degree (1993) from ENSEEIHT Toulouse and PhD (1996) from University of Toulouse 1(France), and University Habilitation (2007) from ENSI (Tunisia). She has been a Fulbright scholar and got a six-month grant for research at the University of California Irvine (UCI), Information and Computer Science Department, USA (Feb 2001 – Aug 2001).
Her current research areas include socio-technical complex systems modelling and simulation (with a special focus on scalability and interoperability) and computer-supported collaborative work (with a special interest in socio-cultural and knowledge related issues) and their applications to simulation environments and cloud computing environments, mainly in the frame of the emergency management and collaborative learning as target application domains.
She was/is the supervisor of engineering and research projects (about 20 masters projects and 14 PhD Thesis) in those fields, in collaboration with national and international colleagues (e.g. University of Toulouse I, University of Grenoble, Laboratories LAAS, IRIT, IRD, LIG, AGIM, LIRIS).
She has been co-program chair of the ISCRAM-med2017 conference. She has been the co-chair of the ISCRAM-med2016. She has been the co-chair and organization chair of the ISCRAM-med’2015 Conference (successfully held in Tunis from 28 to 30 October 2015). She has been co-chair of the 3rd Track on Collaborative Technology for Coordinating Crisis Management (CT2CM), of the 22ndIEEE WETICE Conference, 2013. She is (was) a member of program committees and a reviewer of several international conferences and journals.
Her major research results are published as 18 journal articles, 7 book chapters, 1 encyclopedia paper and more than 60 conference and workshop papers. She also co-edited 3 Proceedings as Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing book series.
She is an expert evaluator for the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme.
She is involved at the national level as a proposals evaluator of collaborative research projects between French and Tunisian laboratories.
She was/is a member of the national recruitment committee of associate professors (sessions 2020 and 2021), assistant professors (sessions 2014 and 2015), she was also a member of the national recruitment committee of assistants (sessions 2012 and 2013) and a member of the National Commission for assistance to recruit technologists (2008 & 2009).