I received my PhD degree in 2003 from the University of Newcastle, Australia. Currently, I am a senior lecturer in Information Technology with the School of Engineering and Technology, Central Queensland University, Australia. My research interests include computational intelligence & neural networks, deep learning and applications in spectral data analysis, optimization algorithms and applications in timetable scheduling problems, probabilistic modelling, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation. I have been a peer reviewer of several internationally prestigious journals, including Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier), Neural Computing and Applications (Springer), Applied Artificial Intelligence (Francis Taylor), IEEE-Access etc., and a program committee member of more than 25 international conferences. I am currently co-supervising a PhD student in the area of machine learning and a master student in optimization algorithms. Students interested in working in the above areas as PhD and masters can contact me via email.