I am now Assistant Professor of computer science-artificial intelligence at the Department of computer science, college of sciences, Mustansiriyah University. I received the BSc degree in Computer Science from the Department of computer science, college of sciences, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq in July 2002, the Higher Diploma and MSc degrees in Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence from the Department of computer science, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq in December 2003 and October 2007, respectively and the PhD degree in Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence from the School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom in October 2018 (PhD thesis: Hybrid Meta-heuristic Algorithms for Static and Dynamic Job Scheduling in Grid Computing).
My research interest covers the following areas: genetic and evolutionary computation, memetic computing, swarm intelligence (particle swarm optimization and ant colony optimization), heuristics, meta-heuristics and hybrid meta-heuristics, artificial neural networks, computational intelligence for combinatorial, single/multi-objective, and static/dynamic optimization problems, intelligent systems, data mining, job scheduling problems, and relevant real-world applications.