Sihem Mesnager received the Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the University of Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France, in 2002 and the Habilitation to Direct Theses (HDR) in Mathematics from the University of Paris VIII, France, in 2012. Currently, she is an associate professor in Mathematics at the University of Paris VIII, France.  Her research interests include discrete Mathematics,  Boolean functions, Cryptology, Sequences, Coding theory, Commutative Algebra and Computational Algebraic Geometry.

She is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Information and Coding Theory (IJOCT) and an Associate Editor for the international journal IEEE Transactions on information Theory (IEEE-IT). She also serves the editorial board of the international journal Advances in Mathematics of Communications (AMC) and the international journal RAIRO ITA (Theoretical Informatics and Applications). She was a program co-chair for International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields (WAIFI) in 2014 and served on the board of program comitties of several international conferences and workshops (Africacrypt 2009, SETA 2010, SETA 2014, WCC 2011, WCC 2013, WCC 2015,  International Workshop Castle Meeting on Coding Theory and Applications in 2014, etc.).