Dr. Shadia Yahya Baroud is an Assistant Professor at Al-Aqsa University, an IEEE Senior Member and a two-time ITU AI for Good Scholar. She holds a PhD in Computing (Artificial Intelligence) and works on multi-agent systems, federated learning and semantic communications for 6G, with applications in smart manufacturing, healthcare and intelligent transport. Her background spans over 15 years in software engineering and applied AI. She has presented at IEEE WCNC and the ITU AI for Good Summit.