Maher Khemakhem received Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Paris Sud (Orsay), France, in 1984 and 1987, respectively, and the Habilitation (accreditation) degree from the University of Sfax, Tunisia, in 2008. He is currently a full professor in computer science with the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include distributed systems, HPC, performance analysis, network security, and pattern recognition