Rachida Dssouli is professor and founding Director of Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), Concordia University.
She received the Doctorat d'Université
degree in Computer Science from the Université
Paul-Sabatier of
She has been a professor at the Université Mohamed 1er, Oujda, Morocco, from 1981 to 1989, Assistant professor at the Université de Sherbrooke, from 1989 to 1991, and Full professor at the Université de Montréal until May 2001. She spent a Sabbatical year at NORTEl..
Her research area is in Communication software engineering, Requirements engineering and Service Computing. Ongoing projects include incremental specification and analysis of reactive systems based on scenario language,Service Computing and service composition, multimedia applications, conformance testing, design for testability , conformance testing based on FSM /EFSM and Timed automata.
She served very often as a member of committee program of many workshops
and conferences (IWPTS, IWTCS, FORTE, CFIP, MMNS, MMM, FIW, NOTERE). She
organized or co-organized several international workshops and conferences
(IWPT'93, CFIP'93, FORTE'95, CFIP'96, NOTERE'98, SDL Forum'99, SAR,
NOTERE’2004, TESTCOM’2005).