Prof. Dr. Zakaria Abou El Houda is a Professor at the Energy, Materials, and Telecommunications Center of the National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS-EMT), Canada. He is a member of the INRS-UQO Joint Research Unit in Cybersecurity.

He has been contributing to significant research projects on the application of machine learning for intrusion detection systems, and studying the explainability and robustness of these systems. He has extensive research experience in the security of next-generation networks. His current research interests include IoT, ZSM security, and Blockchain.