Alaa F. Sheta received his B.E., M.Sc. degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University in 1988 and 1994, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science Department, School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA in 1997. He was promoted to professorship in 2008. Currently, Prof. Sheta is a faculty member with the Computer Science Department, The World Islamic Sciences and Education (WISE) University, Amman, Jordan. He is on leave from the Computers and Systems Department, Electronics Research Institute (ERI), Cairo, Egypt. He published over 80 papers, book chapters and two books in the area of image processing and evolutionary computations. He has been an invited speaker in number of national and international conferences. Prof. Sheta is a member of the IEEE Evolutionary Computations, ACM and ISAI societies. He is also the Vice President of the Arab Computer Society (ACS). His research interests include Evolutionary Computation, Modeling and Simulation of Dynamical Nonlinear Systems, Image Processing, Robotics, Swarm Intelligence, Automatic Control, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Software Reliability Modeling.