She received a 5-year BA in IT Engineering in 2007 from Damascus University in Syria, an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence in 2009 from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and a Ph.D. degree from the IT University of Copenhagen in 2013. She is the chair of the IEEE CIS CIS Games Technical Committee. Her work received two IEEE awards and she has several papers nominated for best paper award. Her research interests include behaviour modeling, procedural content generation, computational creativity and affective computing.