Biography: Essam Rashed received his Ph.D. (Eng.) in Computer Science from the University of Tsukuba, Japan in 2010. He was a JSPS Research Fellow at the University of Tsukuba (2010-2012). He served as Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University from 2010. He was a research Professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan (2018-2021). Currently, he is a Professor at the Graduate School of Information Science, University of Hyogo, Japan. His research interests include medical image processing, data science, artificial intelligence, and pattern recognition. Dr. Rashed is IEEE Senior Member and Associate Editor of IEEE Access. He received 2021 Faculty Award of Excellence, Nagoya Institute of Technology, 2018 Applied Research Award, Suez Canal University, Silver Distinguished Reviewer (IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, 2022), and Outstanding Reviewer (Biomed. Signal Process. Cont., 2017). He participated as a PI for several external funded projects.