introduction/brief CV
Laith Abualigah is an Associate Professor at Prince Hussein Bin Abdullah College for Information Technology, Al Al-Bayt University, Jordan. He received his first degree from Al-Albayt University, Computer Information System, Jordan, in 2011. He earned a Master’s degree from Al-Albayt University, Computer Science, Jordan, in 2014. He received a Ph.D. degree from the School of Computer Science at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia, in 2018. According to the report published by Clarivate, I’m one of the Highly Cited Researchers in 2021 and 2022 and the 1\% influential Researchers, which depicts the 6,938 top scientists in the world. And I’m the first researcher in the domain of Computer Science in Jordan for 2021. According to the report published by Stanford University in 2020, Abualigah is one of the 2% influential scholars, which depicts the 100,000 top scientists in the world. Abualigah has published more than 400 journal papers and books, which collectively have been cited more than 15200 times (H-index = 50). His main research interests focus on Arithmetic Optimization Algorithm (AOA), Bio-inspired Computing, Nature-inspired Computing, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Meta-heuristic Modeling, and Optimization Algorithms, Evolutionary Computations, Information Retrieval, Text clustering, Feature Selection, Combinatorial Problems, Optimization, Advanced Machine Learning, Big data, and Natural Language Processing. Abualigah currently serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Cluster Computing (Springer), the Journal of Soft Computing (Springer), and the Journal of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier).