Zuhair Bandar, received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Mosul University, Iraq, in 1972. The M.Sc. degree in electronics from the University of Kent, U.K, in 1974. The Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence and neural networks from Brunel University, U.K., in 1981. He is currently a Reader in intelligent systems in the Department of Computing, Manchester Metropolitan University and he is a head of the Intelligent Systems Group. His research interests: Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Genetic Algorithms, Fuzzy Logic. And Dialogue systems.