Dr. Hussein Fadhel graduated top of his class with B.Sc. degree in electronics and control engineering from Technical Engineering College Kirkuk – Northern Technical University, Iraq in 2007. He received his M.S. in engineering science with emphasis in telecommunications in May 2012 from the University of Mississippi, USA via a Fulbright scholarship he was awarded in 2010. He earned his Ph.D. in engineering science - electrical engineering with emphasis in communications and information theory from the University of Mississippi 2015 – 2019 via a grant from NASA. His research interests include channel coding, IoT networks, Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN), and environment monitoring wireless sensor networks. Currently, he is a faculty member at Northern Technical University.

Professor Seyedali Mirjalili is the director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Optimization at Torrens University Australia. He is internationally recognized for his advances in Swarm Intelligence and Optimization, including the first set of algorithms from a synthetic intelligence standpoint - a radical departure from how natural systems are typically understood. Prof. Mirjalili has published over 300 publications with over 40,000 citations and an H-index of 70. He has been in the list of 1% highly cited researchers for the last years and was named as the top AI researcher by the Australian Newspaper in 2021. From Google Scholar metrics, he is globally the 3rd most cited researcher in Engineering Optimization and Robust Optimization. He is serving an associate editor of Applied Soft Computing, Advances in Engineering Software, the journal of Algorithms.