Received an M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Aix Marseille University, France, in 2004 and 2010, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the College of Information Technology, Ajman University, United Arab Emirates. Prior to that, he was the Head of the Computer Science Department, King Hussein School of Computing Sciences, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, and the Head of the Software Engineering Department, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman, Jordan. His research interests include applied research solving challenging problems in data science and deep learning, advanced theoretical knowledge, applied hands-on experience in machine learning (ML), and text/image/speech processing.