Fahd Alhaidari is currently an Associate Professor in the College of Computer Science and Information Technology at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU), Dammam, Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in 2012. His research interests include cloud computing, network security, applied cryptography, algorithms and simulation, machine learning, and data mining fields, in addition to the performance evaluation of computer networks.