Muhammad Shoaib Arif received his BSc from the University of Punjab, Pakistan, in 2003; his MA in mathematics from the same university in 2005; his MPhil from Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan, in 2008; and his PhD in applied mathematics from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2015. He is currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at Air University in Islamabad, Pakistan. His research interests include numerical analysis, mathematical biology, optimization techniques, and information geometry.