Ilhem is a research project leader on cloud-native network function orchestration in Orange Labs. From 2012 to 2014, she worked as research project leader on network virtualization in VirtuOR Startup. In 2012, she obtained the PhD in computer sciences with honors from Pierre & Marie Curie university (Paris 6) in France. Her main research interests include cloud, network function virtualization, orchestration and optimization of communication networks. She is TPC co-chair of IEEE/IFIP CIoT’18. She served as a co-guest editor of the Special Issue “Cloud Edge Computing in the IoT”- Springer Annals of Telecommunications. She is also active TPC member in several international conferences including, IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE LCN, IFIP WWIC, IEEE SACONET, IEEE SCNS IEEE/IFIP CIoT and ISNCC and reviewer of the majority of the main IEEE and IFIP conferences and journals.