Zahia Guessoum is "Maître de Conférences" (Associate Professor). She received her doctorship/PhD (1996) and then her "habilitation à diriger des recherches" (2003), both in computer science and from University Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris 6), France.
She is member of the Centre de Recherche en STIC (CReSTIC) where she heads the AI group (named MODECO). Moreover, she is associated member of the MAS group of Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6).
Her general research interests are about adaptive agents and multi-agent systems, fault-tolerant MAS, multi-agent oriented software engineering, coordination mechanisms, self adaptive MAS, multi-agent simulation and complex systems.