Laith Abualigah is an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department, Amman Arab University, Jordan. He is also a distinguished researcher at the School of Computer Science, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. 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 in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia, in 2018. 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 80 journal papers and books, which collectively have been cited more than 3100 times (H-index = 27). 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 Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences (Elsevier).
Optimization, Algorithms, Engineering problems, text mining, data mining, Feature selection, optimization problems