Yousra Chtouki
School - School of Science and Engineering Employment Status - Full-Time Office - Building 5, Office No. 102 Office hours - TBA Office extension - 2379
Yousra Chtouki is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the School of Science and Engineering at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, where she co founded the undergraduate research and leads a grant-funded tiny machine learning project for an eco-friendly applications. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science with high honors from École Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs, Morocco. She also holds a Master of Science from Oklahoma City University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Central Oklahoma, United States, both in computer science. Before joining AUI in 2008, she was a database, systems and network administrator at Mercy Education Institute in Oklahoma City. Her research interests include machine learning, tiny machine learning and AI in education, with applications in sustainability, smart agriculture and aquaculture. She has published more than 45 journal and conference papers, contributed to three international books and holds two research grants. Since 2013, she has been a research member of EDUsummIT, the International Summit on Information Technology in Education, and she co-edited its 2025 book on digital technologies in education. Since 2022, she has mentored more than 170 student research projects, which have won for Best Undergraduate Research three years in a row. She founded the Educational Farm Project, a living lab, and launched the university’s first Artificial Intelligence Summer School in 2023. As advisor of the Sustainability Club, she secured the Principles for Responsible Management Education prize for promoting sustainability in education in 2024 for AUI. She was named Faculty of the Year for Excellence in Teaching for 2025–2026. She teaches programming, database systems and machine learning, using a studio-style approach she introduced at the university.