Dr. Hossam Faris is a full professor at the University of Jordan. Dr. Faris received his BA and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from Yarmouk University and Al-Balqa' Applied University in 2004 and 2008, respectively, in Jordan. Subsequently, he was awarded a full-time competition-based Ph.D. scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Education and Research to pursue his Ph.D. in business at the University of Salento, Italy, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 2011. In 2016, Dr. Faris worked as a Postdoctoral researcher with the GeNeura team at the Information and Communication Technologies Research Center (CITIC), University of Granada (Spain). In 2017, he co-founded The Evolutionary and Machine Learning Research Group, which includes10 Ph.D. and Master's students from the University of Jordan. He collaborates with many well-regarded scholars from different countries worldwide. In 2018, he was the director of the Open Educational Resources Center at The University of Jordan.