Laith Abualigah is an associate professor at the Computer Science Department at Al al-Bayt University, Jordan. He received his first degree from Al-Albayt University, Computer Information Systems, Jordan, in 2011. He has also a master's degree from Al-Albayt University, computer science, Jordan, in 2014, and a Ph.D. degree from the School of Computer Science at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia, in 2018. His main research interests focus on bio-inspired computing, artificial intelligence, metaheuristic modeling and optimization, evolutionary computations, optimization algorithms, information retrieval, feature selection, combinatorial problems, data mining, and text mining.