Ali Wagdy Mohamed is a Professor at the Operations Research Department, Faculty of Graduate Studies for Statistical Research, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. He holds a PhD in Operations Research from Cairo University. He is the originator of the gaining-sharing knowledge (GSK) optimization algorithm and a co-author of several of its published variants; his algorithms have ranked among the top performers in IEEE CEC optimization competitions, including AGSK, runner-up in the CEC 2020 bound-constrained competition, and the LSHADE-SPACMA hybrid evaluated on the CEC 2017 benchmarks. His research interests include computational intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, operations research, and optimization. His work has attracted more than 9,000 citations, with a Google Scholar h-index of 47.