TARIK A. RASHID received a Ph.D. degree in computer science and informatics from the College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland in 2006. He joined the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr, in 2017. He is a Principal Fellow for the Higher Education Authority (PFHEA-UK) and a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH), Iraq. He is on the prestigious Stanford University list of the World’s Top 2% of Scientists for the years 2021, 2022, and 2023. His areas of research cover the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Nature Inspired Algorithms, Swarm Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Mining.