Imen Grida Ben Yahia is currently with Orange Labs, France, as a Research Project Leader on Autonomic & Cognitive Management. She received her PhD degree in Telecommunication Networks from Pierre et Marie Curie University in conjunction with Télécom SudParis in 2008. Imen joined Orange in 2010 as Senior Research Engineer on Autonomic Networking. Her current research interests are autonomic and cognitive management for software and programmable networks that include artificial intelligence for SLA and fault management, knowledge and abstraction for management operations, intent- and policy-based management. As such, she contributed to several European research projects like Servery, UniverSelf and CogNet and authored several scientific conference and journal papers in the field of autonomic and cognitive management. Imen is a Vice-Chair of IEEE TCAC (Technical Committee on Autonomic Communications) and she is also a member of several TPCs and conference organizing committees.