Esma Aïmeur is full professor at the Department of Computer Science at University of Montréal and the Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Laboratory. She works on privacy and security, applying artificial intelligence techniques to manage personal data in e-Learning, e-commerce and medicine. Her most recent research focuses on online deception, the ethics of artificial intelligence, social networks, security awareness, recommender- and privacy-preserving systems. In 2016 she chaired the workshop track of the 24th World Wide Web Conference, co-chaired the MCETECH Conference on e-Technologies in 2017, and in 2019 she co-chaired the “Privacy Fairness and Transparency'” track of the ACM UMAP conference.

In 2019, she was the representative of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) on the panel of the panel "Canada-UK Artificial Intelligence Initiative: building competitive and resilient economies and societies through responsible AI".

This year, she is the Co-Guest editor of the special issue "Understanding and Mitigating Online Deception", Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.

Prof. Aïmeur is currently co-editor of the International Journal of Privacy and Health Information Management, and associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Big Data and for Frontiers on Artificial Intelligence for Human Learning and Behaviour Change.