Hajar Moudoud is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) and the holder of the Institutional Research Chair in Collaborative Quantum Learning for Cybersecurity in Connected Environments. She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research and Innovation in Cybersecurity and Society (CIRICS) and the Multidisciplinary Institute for Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience (IMC²). She is also involved in research and collaborative activities with the Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de l’Outaouais (CISSSO).

Her research lies at the intersection of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), next-generation networks, blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), and quantum technologies, with a particular focus on securing complex and highly interconnected digital environments. Her work explores innovative approaches for intrusion and anomaly detection, cyber-threat identification and mitigation, privacy preservation, and the protection of data and critical digital infrastructures. A key dimension of her research focuses on the secure integration of blockchain technologies with IoT ecosystems, leveraging decentralized architectures to enhance trust, data integrity, authentication, access control, privacy, and secure information exchange among connected devices. 

Deemah H. Tashman (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan, in 2014 and 2017, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Concordia University, Montréal, Canada, in 2022. 

From 2014 to 2017, she was a Research and Teaching Assistant at Jordan University of Science and Technology, and from 2017 to 2022 at Concordia University. Following the award of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies (FRQNT), she began her postdoctoral research in the Department of Computer and Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal in August 2022. She has also served as a Faculty Lecturer at Polytechnique Montréal and Vanier College. 

Her research interests include reinforcement learning, federated learning, physical layer security, cybersecurity, cross-layer security, and post-quantum cryptography for next-generation wireless networks. 

Dr. Tashman was the recipient of the Best Paper Awards at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 and ICCSPA 2024 conferences.