Mohammed ElAffendi is a professor of computer science in the Department of Computer Science, College of Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS), Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, KSA. He is the founder and Director of the Center of Excellence in CyberSecurity (CYBEX), founder and Director of the EIAS Data Science Research Lab, AIDE to the Rector, Director of the Institutional Policy and Development unit, and a former dean of the CCIS. For the past few years, he has been performing research in the areas of machine learning, natural language processing, emerging distributed architectures, next generation computer systems, and complexity science. His current research interests include data science, intelligent and cognitive systems, machine learning, and natural language processing.