She received her PhD in Mathematics and statistics from the University of Jussieu and INRIA in December 1995. She holds a BS degree in Mathematics from University of Science, Rabat and a MS degree of Mathematics and statistics from the University of Jussieu, Paris, France. She spent one year at the University of Washington, one year at the Fred Hutchinson cancer research center and two years at the Data Theory center, at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. She advised five PhD students and over 20 Master students in different field of mathematical and computational sciences.