Luai Al-Shalabi is an Associate Professor of data mining at the Arab Open University, Kuwait Branch. He completed his Ph.D. in computer science in 2000 with a focus on data mining. His areas of interest include data mining, data science, knowledge discovery, and machine learning. He has plenty of publications in reputable local and international conferences and journals, mostly on data mining and machine learning. He was a recipient of the Excellence Award in scientific research from the Arab Open University in Kuwait for the academic year 2019/2020. He can be contacted at email: lshalabi@aou.edu.kw.