Bilal Al-Bataineh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, College of Computers and Information Systems, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. He received a Bachelor of Computer Science from Yarmouk University (Jordan) in 2005, a Master's degree in Intelligence Systems from University Utara Malaysia (UUM) in 2007, and his Ph.D. in Systems Science and Management (Artificial Intelligence) from the National University of Malaysia “UKM” (Malaysia) in 2011. His research interests include document image analysis and recognition, artificial intelligence, image processing, pattern recognition, and computer vision.