Dr. Laith Abualigah is an Associate Professor at Hourani Center for Applied Scientific Research, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Jordan. He is also a distinguished researcher at the School of Computer Science, Universiti Sains Malaysia. His main research interests focus on Arithmetic Optimization Algorithms (AOA), Bio-inspired Computing, Nature-inspired Computing, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Meta-heuristic Modeling, as well as Optimization Algorithms, Evolutionary Computations, Information Retrieval, Text Clustering, Feature Selection, Combinatorial Problems, Optimization, Advanced Machine Learning, Big Data, and Natural Language Processing. Dr. Abualigah currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Cluster Computing (Springer), the Journal of Soft Computing (Springer), and Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences (Elsevier).