Hatem Abdulkader received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. (by Research) degrees in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt, in 1990 and 1995, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, in 2001, specializing in neural networks and applications. He is currently a Professor with the Information Systems Department, Faculty of Computers and Information, Menoufia University, since 2004. He has worked on a number of organizations. He has contributed more than 150 technical articles in the areas of neural networks, big data, database applications, information security, and internet applications.