Meriem Laleg is an associate professor in the division of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering at KAUST and member of the Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC). She joined KAUST in 2011 after being a postdoctoral fellow and a researcher at the French Institute for research in Computer Sciences and Control Systems (INRIA) in Bordeaux. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 2008 from INRIA and Versailles University. Professor Laleg’s work is in the general area of mathematical control theory, systems modeling, signal processing and their applications. Her primary research goals are directed towards developing effective estimation methods and algorithms to understand complex systems, extract hidden information and design control and monitoring strategies. Her research projects are motivated by real world problems in engineering and biomedical fields. She is an IEEE senior member, a member of the IEEE Control Conference Editorial Board, an associate editor of the IEEE access Journal and several control conferences including the European Control Conference. She is also member of the international federation of automatic control (IFAC) technical committee on Biological and Medical systems (TC8.2) and Modeling and Control of Environmental Systems (TC8.3).