Lamia Chaari Fourati is a professor at Computer Science and Multimedia Higher Institute), Sfax University, and researcher at Digital Research Center of Sfax (CRNS), Laboratory of Signals, systems, artificial Intelligence, networks (SM@RTS). She focused her research activities on conception and validation of new protocols and mechanisms for emerging networks technologies. Her research activities are very important and up-to-date which are related to digital telecommunication networks, in particular wireless access networks, sensor networks, vehicular networks, Internet of things, 5G, software defined network, information centric network and wireless body area network, unmanned aerial vehicle, etc. In these areas, she is interested in problems such as quality of services provisioning (congestion control, admission control, resources allocations…), cyber security and ambient intelligence. Her scientific publications have met the interest of the scientific community and her work has been published in top-tier journals and conferences. She has more than 60 papers published in journals and more than 90 papers published in conferences. Prof. Lamia CHAARI FOURATI is the laureate for the Kwame Nkrumah Regional Awards for women 2016 (North Africa Region).