ISMAIL TAHA AHMED received his B.E. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the College of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Anbar, Anbar, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Putrajaya, Malaysia, in 2018. Currently, he is a Assistant Professor in the College of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Anbar. His research interests include image processing, computer vision, visual cryptography, image quality assessment, steganalysis, image forgery, watermarking, image enhancement, texture recognition, machine learning, and deep learning.