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Amel Bennaceur is a researcher whose work sits at the intersection of autonomous systems, human-computer interaction, and software engineering, with a particular focus on making intelligent systems more adaptive, secure, and socially aware. Her research spans the Internet of Things, drone-assisted emergency response, and the engineering of values in autonomous systems. Among her most notable contributions is her work on feature-driven mediator synthesis, which addresses how heterogeneous IoT devices can collaborate securely — a challenge growing in urgency as connected environments become more complex (cited 12 times). Bennaceur has also pioneered efforts to embed social identity awareness into autonomous systems, demonstrating through her IDEA architecture and drone-based emergency coordination studies that systems capable of recognising human social dynamics can dramatically improve real-world crisis response (cited 7 and 6 times respectively). Her game-theoretic approach to adapting system behaviour under uncertain human preferences reflects a broader ambition: ensuring autonomous systems genuinely serve the people interacting with them. Complementing this technical work, her social identity analysis of robotics software engineering highlights how developer values shape the systems we build. Across these contributions, Bennaceur establishes herself as a researcher deeply committed to building autonomous systems that are not only functional, but human-centred.