KARAM M. SALLAM (Member, IEEE) received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of New South Wales Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia, in 2018. He is currently a lecturer with the University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia. His current research interests include evolutionary algorithms and optimization, constrained handling techniques for evolutionary algorithms, operation research, machine learning, deep learning, cybersecurity, and the Internet of Things. He serves as an organizing committee member for different conferences in the evolutionary computation field and as a reviewer for several international journals. He was the winner of the IEEE-CEC2020 and IEEE-CEC2021 Competitions.