Dr. Khaoula Hidawi is a researcher specializing in secure and trustworthy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems, with a focus on trust management, cybersecurity, and data-driven intelligence in urban and cyber-physical environments. She has authored 3 scholarly documents, received 1 citation, and currently holds an h-index of 1, reflecting emerging impact in a highly technical research domain. Her work spans UAV cooperation, path planning, regulatory compliance, and resilience against adversarial threats such as signal jamming, GPS spoofing, and network vulnerabilities. She is the lead author of “AeroTrust-5D: A Five-Dimensional Trust Management System for Optimizing UAV Cooperation and Path Planning in Urban Areas,” published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Her research has also appeared in IEEE Transactions on Big Data and ACM security workshops, with additional manuscripts accepted or under review in leading IEEE and Elsevier journals, contributing to the advancement of secure, intelligent UAV and FANET systems.