Prof. Dr. Ali Ahmed Abdelrahim is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with more than 24 years of experience in higher education, academic administration, and research leadership. He holds a PhD and a Post-Doctoral fellowship in Computer Science from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), and previously served as Associate Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology at Mashreq University, Sudan. His research interests include Machine Learning, Data Science, Information Retrieval, Image Processing, and Medical Image Retrieval. Notable works include "Implementing Relevance Feedback for Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval", published in IEEE and " The artificial bee colony algorithm: A comprehensive survey of variants, modifications, applications, developments, and opportunities", published in Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, and the Sudanese Engineering Association (SEA), and holds certifications as an Academic Accreditation Reviewer and Academic Quality Practitioner from the Education and Training Evaluation Commission (ETEC), Saudi Arabia.