Md. Abdul Kader, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Department of Software Engineering at Daffodil International University, Bangladesh. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computing from Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA), Malaysia, an M.Sc. (by Research) in Computer Engineering from Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Malaysia, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladesh. His research interests include artificial intelligence, computational optimization, metaheuristic algorithms, image processing, and software engineering. Dr. Kader has published numerous research articles in leading international journals and conference proceedings, including IEEE Access, Neural Computing and Applications, PLOS ONE, and ACM/IEEE conferences. He actively contributes to the global research community as a reviewer and technical program committee member. He has also been involved in several funded research projects focusing on intelligent computing and advanced optimization techniques.