Malika Bendechache is a Lecturer Above the Bar in the School of Computer Science at the University of Galway and an SFI Funded Investigator at the Lero Research Centre. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at Dublin City University (DCU) and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Irish Institute of Digital Business (IIDB, dotLab), School of Business, DCU. Malika has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at University College Dublin.

Her expertise lies in Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Data & AI Governance. She designs novel Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning techniques to enhance the capability and efficiency of complex systems, and also leverages complex systems to improve the effectiveness, privacy and trustworthiness of Analytics/Machine Learning techniques.