Najlaa Maaroof received her bachelor's degree in Computer Science in 2009 from the Hodiedah University, Yemen, and a Master's degree from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Catalonia, Spain) in 2019. During the master study, she worked with the ITAKA group on a research project for developing a system that integrates data coming from aspect-level sentiment analysis into a  multi-criteria decision aiding procedure.  She is currently working as a predoctoral researcher with the ITAKA group, URV, under the supervision of Dr. Antonio Moreno. The main goal of her Ph.D. thesis is to develop interpretable machine learning methods based on fuzzy logic.