Dr. Ali A. Alwan is currently an assistant professor at the School of Theoretical and Applied Science, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA. He received his master of computer science in 2009 and PhD in Computer Science in 2013 from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia. His research interests include databases, location-based social networks (LBSN), recommendation systems, cybersecurity, application of machine learning algorithms, and data management in cloud and fog computing.