an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Information Technology at Applied Science Private University in Amman, Jordan; received his M.S. in computer Science from New York Institute of Technology, in 2005 and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Chicago, in 2011. In fall of 2011, he joined the Department of Computer Science at the Applied Science University. Dr. Fadi Almasalha received his Associate rank on 2016, during his appointment as the head of computer science department. Dr. Fadi has published more than 10 technical papers, journals and book chapters in refereed conferences and journals in the areas of multimedia systems, data mining, and cryptography.