Essam H. Houssein received his PhD in Computer Science (AI). He is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Dean of Faculty of Computers & Information, Minia University, Minia 61519, Egypt. He is the founder and chair of the Computing & Artificial Intelligence Research Group (CAIRG) in Egypt. He has more than 300 scientific research papers published in prestigious international journals on the topics of, for instance, meta-heuristics optimization, artificial intelligence, image processing, IoT and its applications. Essam H. Houssein serves as a reviewer of more than 150 journals (Elsevier, Springer, IEEE, etc.). His research interests include WSNs, IoT, AI, bioinformatics and biomedical, image processing, data mining, and meta-heuristics optimization techniques.