Firas Abdulrazzaq Raheem received his Bachelor's degree in Control and Systems Engineering and Master’s degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq, and a Doctorate degree in Robots, Mechatronics and Robotic Systems from South-Russian State Technical University, Russian Federation. Firas is the author/co-author of more than 50 published papers, 2 books, and 4 book chapters (published in Springer International Publishing). He is currently a full-time Assistant Professor, Head of Computer and Control Engineering Branch, Department of Control and Systems Engineering, University of Technology, Iraq. For the past nine years, he was the Head of Automation and Robotics Research Unit ARRU located at the same department. His major areas of research interest include Mechatronics, Robotics, Robotic Systems, Automation, Intelligent Control Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Robotic Motion Planning Systems, Optimization Techniques, Computer Vision and Image Processing, Bioinformatics applications, Heuristic, Meta-Heuristic Computing, Computational Intelligence, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Sensors and Measurements, Embedded Systems and Microcontrollers, Actuators, and Drives. He is now the Editor-in Chief of the International Journal of Distributed Artificial Intelligence (IJDAI-IGI-Global/USA). Moreover, he is an editorial member and reviewer for several international journals.