Ibrahim Aljarah is Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Information Technolgy at the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. He was born in a small Jordanian village called Almazar located in Irbid Southwest, in 1981. He received a High school degree in science from Almazar School, Irbid-Jordan. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Yarmouk University - Jordan, 2003. Ibrahim also obtained a master's degree in Computer Science and Information Systems from the Jordan University of Science and Technology - Jordan in 2006. After graduation, he was worked in University of Jordan as Online Exams Administrator. Through this period, he was granted a scholarship from University Of Jordan, Amman to complete his PhD degree. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the North Dakota State University (NDSU), USA, in May 2014.
He is especially interested with Data mining, Big Data, MapReduce, Hadoop, Swarm intelligence, Evolutionary Computation, and large scale distributed algorithms. He loves all sporting and outdoor events, particularly soccer, and enjoys listening to music.
