Dr. Imam received his B.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics in 1986 and a graduate diploma in Computer Science and Information in 1989 from Cairo University. He received his M.Sc. in Computer Science in 1992 and his Ph.D. in Information Technology and Engineering in 1995 from George Mason University. Dr. Imam edited three international books and several international journals. He chaired three international conferences and workshops. He authored co-authored over 60 papers in refereed journals, conference proceedings, and workshop proceedings. His research focused in the fields of artificial intelligence, data mining, text mining (Arabic & English), pattern recognition, and machine learning. Dr. Imam is a steering committee member of the international journal of artificial intelligence and machine learning. He served as program committee member for many international conferences. In 1986, Dr. Imam worked as knowledge engineer in UNDP and FAO project. He developed an expert system for diagnosing crop diseases for green house farmers. In 1996, he won a one year grant from the NASDAQ for developing a fraud detection system for the US stock market. In 1997, he worked at Thinking Machines Crop., USA as senior scientist where he developed the Darwin system for data mining. In 2000, Thinking Machines were ranked number one in the world in data mining and was bought by Oracle Corporation, USA. Dr. Imam joined Oracle as Principle Scientist where he started the data mining tool box which exists till now. Dr. Imam returned back to Egypt in 2002 where he joined the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport. He became a full professor in 2007 and departments chair in 2008. In 2005, Dr. Imam won a grant proposal to join the center of excellence in data mining. The center was sponsored by the UNDP through the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT). In 2007 and 2008, his project proposals to the ministry of communications and information technology were among the best four proposals. Dr. Imam's research in Arabic Text Mining is well recognized. He stared along with his students a novel approach for text mining (A presentation is available up on request). He and his students developed a database containing more than 15 tables, each covers over 12 million diacritic Arabic words. Dr. Imam's research in image processing and pattern recognition stared in 1995. He introduced a break through approach for recognizing faces in 1996. The approach is published in the top ranked conference and journal all over the world. In 2005, Dr. Imam visited Virginia Tech University, VA, USA, where he taught Artificial Intelligence for the undergraduate and graduate students. He holds the rank of Adjunct professor at VT. Dr. Imam teaches Artificial Intelligence, Data Structures, Data Base, Data Mining, Knowledge Base Systems, and most programming and mathematic courses.