* Ayoub K. Al-Hamadi was born in Taiz, Yemen in 1970 * He received his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering & Information Technology in 1997 and his PhD. in Technical Computer Science at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany in 2001. * Since 2003 he has been Junior-Research-Group-Leader at the Institute for Electronics, Signal Processing and Communications at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg. * In 2008 he became Professor of Neuro-Information Technology at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. * Prof. Dr.-Ing. Al-Hamadi is the author of more than 90 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences.