She is also the chairperson of the department in Byblos. Dr. Azar joined LAU as an assistant professor in 2004 after earning a PhD degree in Computer Science from McGill University in Canada.Her research interests lie in the fields of meta-heuristics, optimization, search-based software engineering and classification models.She has been teaching courses in Object-Oriented Programming, Heuristics,Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Algorithms and data structures among others both at the graduate and undergradaute levels.