Yahya Benkaouz is an assistant professor at Mohamed V University in Rabat. Prior to this, he has obtained his M.Sc. and his PhD from the ENSIAS Engineering School in Rabat in 2015. During his PhD, he was invited for several research stays at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, INRIA Rennes in France, Technische Universität Darmstadt and Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. His research interests include distributed systems, big data and privacy.