AMIN SHOUKRY was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Computer Science and Automatic Control Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, in 1973 and 1978, respectively, the Diploma degree in computer science from Pierre-and Marie-Curie University, Paris, France, in 1979, and the Ph.D. degree from the AI Group, Informatics Research Center, Nancy, France, in 1983. He was the Chairman of the Computer and Systems Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, from 2006 to 2009. He was also the Chairman of the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), from 2010 to 2012, and the Dean of the Electronics, Communication, and Computer Engineering School, E-JUST, from 2015 to 2017. He is currently a Professor at the CSE Dept, E-JUST. His areas of interests include computational intelligence, machine learning, and pattern recognition. He received the 1997 Egyptian National Research Academy Award in the areas of computer and operations research.