Omar S. Al-Kadi is a Professor in Computational Imaging and Machine Intelligence at the King Abdullah II School for Information Technology at the University of Jordan. He has a PhD from the University of Sussex in the UK and has held research positions at the University of Oxford, the University of Surrey, and as a visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Yale University. He has made several contributions to the field of pattern recognition and decision support systems for real-world problems, particularly in Artificial Intelligence in medicine. He has also applied nature-inspired algorithms to develop more intelligent algorithms based on real-world examples of social behavior. Dr. Al-Kadi is a senior member of the Jordan Engineers Association (JEA) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).