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Dr. Noora Fetais is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar University. She is also the founding Secretary-General of the Arab Association for Cyber Security at the Arab League. Dr. Fetais is a member of the UK-Gulf Women in Cyber Fellowship Program, and the first batch of Qatar Leadership Center (Current and Future Leaders Program 2011-2013). Dr. Fetais is the first and only woman to chair the Faculty Senate of Qatar University (2016) and to be the Director of KINDI Center for Computing Research at Qatar University (2017-2020). Her expertise is in Emerging Technologies specially; Cybersecurity, Blockchain and Visualization. She is representing Qatar University at ITU-UN and Qatar IXP. Dr. Fetais has been holding various professional and volunteered positions including: Vice-Chair of IEEE-Qatar Section, Qatar Ambassador of Women in Data Science (WiDS) at Stanford University, board member of Qatar-UK Alumni Networking, member of Qatar Internet Exchange Points Steering Committee, member of the Board of Advisors for Qatar Academy Doha as part of the Qatar Foundation (QF) for Education, Science and Community Development, among others. Dr. Fetais holds a PhD from the University of Sussex (UK) and an Executive Master Degree in Leadership from Georgetown University (US).