P rof. Nidhal El Abbadi is currently A Director of Al-Mustaqbal Center for AI Applications, Al-Mustaqbal university. He graduated with a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Informatics Institute for Postgraduate Studies (IIPS) – Iraq Commission for Computer and Informatics 2006. Earlier, in 2002 he completed his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from (IIPS). He received his B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Computer Science from Al-Mustansiriya University in 2000, and received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, from the University of Baghdad in 1976. He worked as an engineer in many industrial plants. In 2006, Nidhal joined the academic staff at Al-Mustansiriya University. His research area includes image processing, computer vision, steganography, and IoT (ACM Classification Codes (I3, I4, I5)). He has successfully supervised many Ph.D. and master s students and published more than 300 articles in various international journals and conference proceedings. He published nine books related to computer science. He acts as a reviewer for various journals and conferences. He has also served as a conference chair, and as a technical committee for numerous international conferences.