He received his B.Sc. (Hons - First Class) from the University of Khartoum, Sudan, in 2007, and received his M.Sc. (Distinction) and PhD. from the University of Nottingham, UK, in 2010 and 2014, respectively. He then held research positions at the University of Exeter, and the Cardiff School of Mathematics in Wales. Dr Kheiri has good inter-disciplinary research that broadly contributes to the growing field of Search and Optimisation. His research interests cut across operational research, artificial intelligence and data science, investigating flexible and general cross domain optimisation methods to solve combinatorial optimisation problems.