Nadjia. Benblidia is Full Professor and Research Director at the Saad Dahlab University-Blida1 (USDB). She was awarded the Engineer degree in Computer science from USTHB-Algiers (Algeria), the magister (Postgraduate studies) and the PhD in electrical engineering & image processing from USDB, and the PhD in space sciences & environment at the University of Val de Marne (Paris XII). Actually, she is Doctoral School Head 'Data Science and Computing' at USDB. She is also the Director of the Research Laboratory for the Development of Computerized Systems at the University of Blida.

She used to be coordinator of several research projects like Tassili, FP7, AUF, Cnepru, PNR. She has organized several international conferences around Business Intelligence, Data Science & Computing. She is also a member of several scientific committees at the national and international level.

Her current research interests include image processing, computer vision, information retrieval, data mining, big data, machine learning and pattern recognition in various fields especially medical, satellite, security.