Mouna Kettani

Mouna Kettani is a full-time Senior Lecturer of Computer Science in the School of Science and Engineering at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. She brings more than 20 years of academic experience across Morocco, the United States and Puerto Rico. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in Quantum Machine Learning at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco. She holds Master of Science degrees in Computer Science from Jackson State University and in Psychology from Fort Hays State University. She joined AUI in 2022 as Project Manager at the Center for Teaching and Learning, after serving as a full-time Senior Instructional Faculty at Western Governors University, USA. She also taught at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, Florida Polytechnic University and Keiser University, USA, and served as Visiting Research Faculty at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.

Her research develops hybrid quantum-classical machine learning models for brain-imaging analysis and emotion recognition, with applications in mental health. Her work appears in peer-reviewed Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers proceedings, and she has presented at international conferences. She serves on international conference program committees. She teaches computer programming and supervises research projects in quantum machine learning.