Dr. Jihene Kaabi is an Associate Professor in the College of Information Technology at the University of Bahrain. She received her bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from the Faculty of Science, Monastir-Tunisia in 1999.

She obtained two master’s degrees: the first in Operations Research, Combinatorial, and Optimization from Polytechnic Institute, Grenoble- France in 2000 and the second in Computer Science from the University of Science & Technique, Besançon-France in 2001. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Science & Technique, Besançon-France in 2004. Her research interests focus on scheduling, Production Manufacturing, Maintenance, Multiobjective Optimization, Genetic Algorithms and Data Science. She developed many research papers in the field of optimization problems using genetic algorithms and other heuristic approaches.