Najib BEN AOUN received the Master and the Ph.D degrees in Computer Systems engineering from the National School of Engineers Sfax (ENIS), Tunisia. He has around 20 years of teaching as well as Bachelor, Master and Ph.D students mentoring and co-mentoring experience. He is currently associate professor at the Faculty of Computing and Information (FCI) at Al-Baha University, Saudi Arabia. He is also a senior researcher within the REsearch Groups in Intelligent Machines (REGIM-Lab) in Tunisia. His main research interests include applications of machine learning (including deep learning) in computer vision, medical image analysis, agriculture, security/biometry and data science. He has published 30+ research papers in reputed international conferences and high-level journals. He serves in various editorial roles across SCI/SCIE/Scopus-indexed journals, and has edited books with Springer and Frontiers. In addition, he has participated in the organization of several international conferences and workshops and served as a reviewer for numerous international conferences and journals. Dr. Najib is currently a senior IEEE member and a member of ACM, IAPR, MIRLabs, IAES, IEEE and IEEE SPS as well as IEEE SPS IVMSP, MMSP and MLSP technical committee affiliate member.
Sadique Ahmad is the CEO of KnowledgeShare IU Private Limited. Also, he is a Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Sciences at Bahria University Karachi Campus Pakistan (on leave). Currently, he is working as a Postdoc Fellow at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh KSA. Dr Sadique Ahmad achieved his PhD degree (2019) from the Department of Computer Sciences and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology China, while a Master’s degree (2015) from the Department of Computer Sciences from IMSciences University Peshawar Pakistan. He has achieved above 50 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, including top journals such as Information Sciences, Science China Information Sciences, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Physica-A, and IEEE ACCESS. His interests include Cognitive Computing, Deep Cognitive Modeling for Students' Performance Prediction, and Cognitive Modeling in Object Detection using remote sensing images. Also, in parallel, we are focusing on Cognitive Model-based big data processing.
Mohamed Hammad received the Ph.D. degree from the School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2019. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Computers and Information, Menoufia University, Egypt. He is also a Researcher with the EIAS Data Science Laboratory, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Prince Sultan University. He has published more than 50 articles in international SCI-IF journals. His research interests include biomedical imaging, bioinformatics, cyber security, the IoT, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, pattern recognition, and biometrics. Furthermore, he served as an Editor Board Member for PLOS One and BMC Bioinformatics, an Associate Editor for International Journal of Information Security and Privacy, a Topics Board Editor for Forensic Sciences (MPDI), and the Guest Editor for many international journals, such as International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics, Sensors (MDPI), and Information (MDPI). He is a reviewer of more than 500 articles for many prestigious journals and listed in the top 2% of scientists worldwide (according to the recently released list by Stanford University, USA, in 2022 and 2023).