
Imen Grida Ben Yahia is currently with Orange Labs, France, as a Research Project Leader on Autonomic & Cognitive Management for end to end Network, She is also Future Networks Expert, leading the coordination of “AI for Networks” on the Core and End to End Network department. She received her PhD degree in Telecommunication Networks from Pierre et Marie Curie University in conjunction with Télécom SudParis in 2008. Her current research interests are autonomic and cognitive management for software and programmable networks that include artificial intelligence for SLA and fault management, knowledge and abstraction for management operations, intent- and policy-based management. Imen is currently leading the Network Intelligence Initiative within the IEEE COMSOC Framework. She contributed to several European research projects like Servery, FP7 UniverSelf, the H2020 CogNet and currently the 5G SliceNet. Imen authored several scientific conference and journal papers in those research domains. She gave speeches and talks in different conferences on the topic of Network Intelligence.