Mohammed Azmi Al-Betar (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), in 2010. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with USM, for three years, and invited as a Visiting Researcher two times. He is currently the Head of the Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC), Ajman University, where he has been a full-time Faculty Member with the Master of Artificial Intelligence (MSAI) Program, since 2020. He is also the Head of the Evolutionary Computation Research Group (ECRG). He has more than 15 years of teaching experience in higher education institutions. He has taught several courses in computer science and artificial intelligence fields. He has published more than 175 scientific publications in high-quality and well-reputed journals and conferences. He ranked in Stanford’s study of the world’s top 2% of scientists. His main research interests include scheduling and optimization.