Insaf Setitra

Insaf Setitra is an Associate Professor in the CNRS Heudiasyc UMR 7253 laboratory at the Université de technologie de Compiègne UTC – Alliance Sorbonne University. Before joining Heudiasyc, she worked as a Research Engineer at the Research Center on Scientific and Technical Information (2010 to 2019) and later became an Associate Professor at the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB), Algeria (2019 to 2023). She was also a Visiting Associate Professor at Chubu University, Japan in 2023 and 2024, and previously served as an Invited Researcher at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo in 2013 and 2015. She holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (2019), a master’s degree in software engineering (2010), a bachelor’s degree in information systems and software engineering (2008), all from USTHB, and a bachelor’s degree in finances from the University of Management and Economics of Algiers. Her research interests include computer vision, deep learning, and explainable AI and their applications to affective computing and autonomous vehicles.