MUHAMMAD RAFI (Member, IEEE) was born in Karachi, Pakistan. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the FAST-Institute of Computer Science affiliated with the University of Karachi, Pakistan, in 1996 and 2000,respectively, all in computer science, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science, in 2017. He has more than ten years of experience in software development and also working as a Consultant for local software industry. His current research interests include algorithm development, machine learning, information retrieval, text/data mining, time series analysis, and natural language processing. He has received several travel grant awards for presenting his work at the top conferences. He has served as a Judge and a Technical Quality Review Team at many versions of IEEEXtreme Programming competitions. He has served as a reviewer for various international journals of high impact. https://khi.nu.edu.pk/personnel/dr-muhammad-rafi-phd/