Alia El Bolock joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The American University in Cairo (AUC) in the fall of 2023. She specializes in cybersecurity, networks, and autonomous systems. She obtained her PhD from Ulm University, Germany, in 2022, and her MSc and BSc from The German University in Cairo, Egypt, in 2014 and 2013, respectively.

El Bolock coined the term and established the research into the field of character computing, which combines computer science and psychology for a better understanding of human behavior and improving well-being through technology. She focuses on interdisciplinary research combining different fields. She helped establish multiple research groups for character computing, applied machine learning, and human-computer Interaction. El Bolock organized various workshops, hackathons, seminars, and summer schools related to character computing, women in computing, Virtual Reality, and privacy preservation. She has over 40 refereed publications in her various research areas of interest.

Before joining AUC, El Bolock was a lecturer at the Department of Informatics and Computer Science at the German International University (2021-2023). Before that, she was an assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Media Engineering and Technology, at the German University in Cairo (2013 - 2021). She introduced and taught courses in Cryptography, Information Security, Information Security Management, Discrete Mathematics, Fundamentals in Computing, and Research Methodology.