Walaa Gad received her BSc and MSc degrees in Computer and Information Sciences from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2000 and 2005, respectively. Her master’s research focused on designing and planning a network model in the presence of obstacles using clustering around medoids techniques. She pursued her Ph.D. in the Pattern and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) group at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, and was awarded her Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences in 2010. Her dissertation, titled “Text Clustering Based on Semantic Measures”, was conducted jointly between Ain Shams University and the University of Waterloo. She is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences and serves as the Head of the Information Systems Department, bringing extensive academic and administrative experience. She has authored numerous publications in reputable journals and conference proceedings. Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Warehousing, and Big Data Analytics, with a particular emphasis on intelligent, data-driven systems.