Belgacem Ben Youssef holds the post of Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computer & Information Sciences at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He received his PhD from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, Texas, USA. He was previously an Assistant Professor in both the School of Interactive Arts & Technology and the TechOne Program at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. His research interests include high-performance computing, machine learning, biological computing, image processing, and spatial thinking in learning and design. He has two years of industrial experience in software development and technical project management. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and the ACM. Mohamed Maher Ben Ismail is an associate professor at the computer science department of the College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University. He received his PhD. degree in Computer Science from the University of Louisville in 2011. His research interests include Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Data Mining and Image Processing.
