He received his B.Sc. degree from Computer Science Department at Jerash University, Jerash, Jordan in 2004 and his M.Sc. degree from the department of Intelligent Systems at Universiti Utara Malaysia, Kedah, Malaysia in 2007. He obtained his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia in April 2012. The author published a number of high quality papers in international journals and conferences. His research interests are mainly directed to metaheuristics and combinatorial optimization problems including timetabling.