Hamid D. Ismail received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in computational science from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), USA, and DVM and B.Sc. from the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He earned several professional certifications including SAS Advanced Programmer and SQL Expert Programmer. Currently he works as a post-doc scholar at Michigan Technological University and adjunct professor of Data Science and Bioinformatics at NC A&T State University. Hamid is a bioinformatician, biologist, data scientist, statistician, and machine learning specialist. He contributed widely to the field of bioinformatics by developing bioinformatics tools and methods for applications of machine learning on genomic data.