Nazar Zaki holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Malaysia, where he received the Dean's awards for best Ph.D. student. He has more than 10 years of teaching experience and worked in various educational institutions before joining the College of Information Technology, UAEU in 2004. Dr. Zaki's research focuses on Bioinformatics, Machine Learning and Support Vector Machine. He has published many scientific papers in world class journals/conferences. He is a reviewer in many reputed international journals such as Bioinformatics and BMC Bioinformatics.