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Author

Hamid D. Ismail, PhD, earned an MSc and a PhD in computational science at North

Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), USA, and DVM and BSc

at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He also earned several professional certifications,

including SAS Advanced Programmer and SQL Expert Programmer. Currently, he is a

postdoc scholar at Michigan Technological University and an adjunct professor of data

science and bioinformatics at NC A&T State University. Dr. Ismail is a bioinformatician,

biologist, data scientist, statistician, and machine learning specialist. He has contributed

widely to the field of bioinformatics by developing bioinformatics tools and methods for

applications of machine learning on genomic data.