Prof. Nashwa El-Bendary has been the Dean of the College of Computing and Information Technology (South Valley – Aswan) at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT). Prof. El-Bendary has been also the Director of China-Arab States Technology Transfer Center (CASTTC) at the AASTMT, since 2016 till present. Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Image and Signal Processing, and Data Analytics. Prof. El-Bendary is the recipient of the UNESCO-ALECSO Award for creativity and technical innovation for young researchers in 2014, and the L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science Fellowship in 2015, a member in the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) since 2016, an editorial board member in the Elsevier Applied Soft Computing Journal since 2017, a member of the ICT committee of the Technical Support, Monitoring and Impact Assessment Office (TSMIAO) – the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) since October 2019, and an IEEE Senior member since June 2019.