
Bio: Karima Echihabi is an HDR Professor of Computer Science at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco (UM6P). Her research interests lie in responsible and scalable data science. This spans topics in data management, machine learning, highperformance computing, and socio-legal studies. She is the founding faculty advisor for the UM6P ACM Student Chapter, a senior member of the IEEE, and an Associate Editor for the ACM SIGMOD and PVLDB. Her research work has led to publications in top venues such as the ACM SIGMOD, Communications of the ACM, ICDE, and PVLDB. Before joining UM6P, she worked as a software engineer at Microsoft, Redmond, and the IBM Toronto Lab, and as an entrepreneur running her own consultancy business. She is passionate about computer science education and has coached students in various competitions, leading to several awards including a special mention in the Excellent category of the Top100 UNESCO Global AI Index and a Silver Medal at the 2023 Moroccan National Programming Competition. She earned a BSc. in Software Engineering from Al Akhawayn University, an MSc. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Computer Science from Mohammed V University and Université de Paris.
Dates
March 11, 2026
Abstract submission deadline
March 18, 2026
Paper submission deadline
April 22, 2026
Author notification
June 10-12, 2026
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