Shadi Abudalfa received the BSc and MSc degrees both in Computer Engineering from the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG), Palestine in 2003 and 2010 respectively. He completed his PhD program in Computer Science and Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2018. Abudalfa has a strong teaching experience though his work as an assistant professor at the University College of Applied Sciences, Palestine. He is currently a researcher at KFUPM. From July 2003 to August 2004, he worked as a research assistant at Projects and Research Lab in IUG. During same period, he also worked as a teaching assistant at Faculty of Engineering in IUG. Abudalfa has served as reviewer in numerous international conferences and journals. His current research interests include artificial intelligence, data mining, pattern recognition, machine learning, and sentiment analysis.