Salma Haidar is a PhD candidate at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, specializing in advanced representation learning for hyperspectral images, with a focus on land cover analysis from remote sensing data. She holds a bachelor's degree in Accounting and Finance from the Lebanese University and a Master's in Money and Banking from the American University of Beirut. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Big Data & Analytics from KU Leuven. A Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) since 2006, her diverse background enhances her contributions to machine learning and hyperspectral image analysis.