In 2006, Dr. Abid received a Fulbright Student scholarship to pursue his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Auburn University, USA, which he completed in 2010. Dr. Abid has taught at Auburn University, Alakhawayn University, the University of Houston, Columbus State University, and currently at UM6P (University Mohammed VI Polytechnic). He has designed innovative courses to keep pace with the rapidly evolving ICT landscape, including a Cloud Computing course developed after specialized training at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 2012, and a "Data Science & Big Data Analytics" course at Columbus State University (CSU) in 2022. His interest in Cloud Computing led him to explore deploying HPC (High-Performance Computing) as a Cloud Service (HPCaaS). His expertise earned him invitations to visit the Leibniz Supercomputer Center at TUM and the George Washington University HPC Lab in 2013 and 2014. Dr. Abid received a U.S. NAS (National Academy of Sciences) USAID-PEER grant in 2016, a Fulbright Research scholarship to visit the University of Houston in 2017, and a U.S. NAS Arab-American fellowship to visit Purdue University in 2018. Dr. Abid is a dedicated coach and programmer. He led his teams to first prize for six consecutive years (2014-2019) at the National ACM Moroccan Collegiate Programming Contest (MCPC) and guided them to qualify twice for the ACM ICPC (International Collegiate Programmong Contests) World Finals in 2015 (Marrakech) and 2018 (Beijing).