Professor Mohamed Bahaj is a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences at the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST), Hassan 1st University in Settat, Morocco. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the same university. With over 110 peer-reviewed publications, his research focuses on intelligent systems, machine learning, ontologies, big data, IoT, software engineering, and numerical analysis. Professor Bahaj serves as a reviewer for major Elsevier journals (such as Expert Systems With Applications and Information Sciences) and has been Editor-in-Chief of the Australasian Journal of Computer Science. He has chaired several international conferences and edited proceedings published by Springer. He also supervises Ph.D. theses in both Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics.