Dr. Ammara Mehmood is visiting fellow at UTS Sydney and Lecturer at the Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. She received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 2020, completed her postdoctoral research at Kyungpook National University in 2021, and obtained the M.S. degree from COMSATS University Islamabad. Her research interests include neural networks, heuristic and evolutionary optimization algorithms, and system identification. She has authored numerous publications in reputable ISI-indexed journals and international peer-reviewed conferences.