Almuntadher Alwhelat is a Ph.D. researcher in the Department of Computer Engineering at Near East University, Nicosia, North Cyprus. He received his B.Sc. degree in computer engineering from Al-Rafidain University College, Baghdad, Iraq, in 2019, and his M.Sc. degree in computer engineering from Altınbaş University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2022. He began his Ph.D. studies in 2023 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Rahib H. Abiyev. Since 2023, he has been working at Al-Farabi University College, Iraq, in the Department of Computer Engineering and currently serves as acting head of the department. His research focuses on intelligent computational frameworks for biomedical data analysis, particularly hybrid feature selection, metaheuristic optimization, machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, and classification. His interests also include wireless communications, artificial neural networks, bioinformatics, gene expression analysis, and high-dimensional data classification. He has published more than 12 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, including publications in SoftwareX, Algorithms, and Computers. He is a member of the IEEE.