Moez ESSEGHIR received the National Engineer Diploma in computer sciences from Ecole Nationale des Sciences Informatique (ENSI), Tunis, Tunisia in 2002, the Master of Science degree in networks from the University of Paris VI, Paris, France in 2003, the M.S. degree in computer sciences from ENSI, in 2004 and the Ph.D. degree in computer sciences from University of Paris VI in 2007. In 2008, he was with the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA, as Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2021, he obtained the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from the University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC).

Since September 2008, Moez ESSEGHIR is an associate professor in the University of Technology of Troyes (UTT), France. Since 2021, he is the deputy director of the Computer Science and Digital Socities Lab (LIST3N), which has about 180 members. He was the leader of the ERA research team in the former UMR CNRS 6281 ICD from January 2017 to december 2019. He launched from 2017 to 2019 the DU DPO (Data Protection Officer) and 100 candidates were graduted in nearly 2 years.