Waleed Kareem Awad received a B.Sc. degree (2010) and an M.Sc. (2013) in computer science from the University of Anbar, Iraq. Currently a PhD candidate at The National University of Malaysia (UKM), he also lectures at the College of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Anbar. He has published numerous research papers in international journals on artificial intelligence, cloud computing, multimedia, digital image processing, and security and communication networks. His research interests include artificial intelligence, cloud computing, multimedia, databases, and image processing.