Specialties: Evolutionary Computation, Meta-heuristics and Data mining.

Majdi Mafarja received his B.Sc in Software Engineering and M.Sc in Computer Information Systems from Philadelphia University and The Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences, Jordan in 2005 and 2007 respectively. He did his PhD in Computer Science at National University of Malaysia (UKM).

He was a member in Datamining and Optimization Research Group (DMO). Now he is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science at Birzeit University.

His research interests include Evolutionary Computation, Meta-heuristics and Data mining.