M. Hassaballah was born in 1974, Qena, Egypt. He received the BSc degree in Mathematics in 1997, the MSc degree in Computer Science in 2003 all from South Valley University, Egypt and the Doctor of Engineering (DEng) in Computer Science from Ehime University, Japan in 2011. He was a visiting scholar with the Department of Computer & Communication Science, Wakayama University, Japan in 2013 and GREAH laboratory, Le Havre Normandie University, France in 2019. He was a visiting scholar with the Department of Computer & Communication Science, Wakayama University, Japan in 2013 and GREAH laboratory, Le Havre Normandie University, France in 2019. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Engineering and Sciences, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. Also, he is a full Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computers and Information, South Valley University, Egypt. He served as a reviewer for several Journals such as IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, Egyptian Informatics Journal, IET Image Processing, IET Computer Vision, IET Biometrics, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, The Computer Journal, Journal of Electronic Imaging, and Optical Engineering. He has published 5 books and over 100 research papers in refereed international journals and conferences. He is an Editorial Board member of Pattern Analysis and Applications, Real-Time Image Processing, IET Image Processing, Imaging Science Journal, and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journals. Also, he is a TPC member of many conferences, such as ICIAR 2020, IVPAI 2020, AICS 2020, AICS 2021, IVPAI 2021, AVSS 2022, PRIS 2023, ICFIP 2023, and CIPCV 2024. His research interests include human-centered artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, biometrics, image processing, feature extraction, object detection/recognition, and data hiding.