​Dr. Mohammed Azmi Al-Betar, Head of the Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC) at Ajman University, has been honored with the Best Researcher Award. This prestigious accolade recognizes Dr. Al-Betar's outstanding contributions to artificial intelligence and metaheuristic optimization methods. With over 170 Scopus-indexed publications, he has significantly advanced research in scheduling, engineering, timetabling, electroencephalogram analysis, feature selection, and clustering. His dedication to excellence has earned him recognition among the world's top 2% of scientists by Stanford University for four consecutive years (2021-2024).