Marina Yusoff is currently a Deputy Director and senior fellow researcher at the Institute for Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (IBDAAI) and an Associate Professor of Computer and Mathematical Sciences at the Universiti Teknologi MARA. She has a Ph.D. in Information Technology and Quantitative Sciences (Intelligent Systems). She previously worked as a Senior Executive of Information Technology at SIRIM Berhad, Malaysia. She is mostly interested in multidisciplinary research, artificial intelligence, nature-inspired computing optimization, and data analytics. She applied and modified AI methods in many research projects, including recent hybrid deep learning, particle swarm optimization, genetic algorithm, ant colony, and cuckoo search for many real-world problems and medical and industrial projects. Her recent projects are data analytic optimizer, audio, and image pattern recognition. She has many impact journal publications and contributes as an examiner and reviewer for many conferences, journals, and universities’ academic activities.