Dr. Nazar Zaki is an Associate Professor and coordinator of two tracks namely Intelligent Systems and Software Development. His research interest is in the field of bioinformatics, data mining and machine learning. He mainly focuses on developing an intelligent data mining algorithms to solve specific biological problems, such as protein function/structure prediction, protein interaction network analysis and protein complex detection. He has published many scientific results in world class journals (BMC Bioinformatics, Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, PlosOne, etc) and conferences (ISMB, RECOMB, ECCB, GECCO, etc). He is a reviewer in many reputed international journals such as Bioinformatics, Algorithms for Molecular Biology, Biochimie, BMC Bioinformatics and Medical Science Monitor. Dr Zaki received many scholarship awards such as the Faculty Recognition Award for Excellence in Scholarship in 2007 and 2012, respectively, certificate of merit in the World Congress on Engineering, Imperial College in 2008, and best paper award in ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO in 2011. Dr Zaki was one of the executive members who established the Middle East Association of Healthcare Informatics (MEAHI) in UAE in 2005. He is currently a member of many other professional societies such as ACM, IEEE, ISCB, BO, APBioNET, IASTED, INFORMS, ICS and NBBnet.