Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui received her engineering diploma (Equivalent to M.S degree) in Telecommunications from TELECOM Bretagne at EURECOM (France) in 2009.
She joined NEC C&C Innovation Laboratories as an intern in April 2008. Her work at CCIL focused on devising algorithms for peer-to-peer content-based publish/subscribe overlays.
She joined EURECOM in February 2009 as a PhD student in the Networking and Security Department under the supervision of Prof. Refik MOLVA.