Nailah Al-Madi received her PhD degree in Computer Science from North Dakota State University, USA, in 2014 with GPA 4.00/4.00. During her PhD study, she worked as a research assistant, and got two awards (Doctoral Dissertation award, and being selected as one of the top 10% students to join Phi Kappa Phi Society). She earned her M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, in 2009. Her MSc thesis was titled "Chain Based Distributed Routing Algorithms For Wireless Sensor Networks". She received her B.Sc. degree in Computer Information Systems from Al al-Bayt University, Jordan, in 2005, and was ranked first. Before getting her PhD, she worked as a lecturer in University of Jordan and Middle East University (Amman) for about 2 years. She is currently working as an Associate Professor in Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan. Her research interests include: Optimization and Evolutionary Computation, Data Mining, Big Data, MapReduce and Hadoop Framework, Robotics, and Wireless Sensor Networks.