Dr. Shariq Bashir is an accomplished Associate Professor at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, with over the years of academic and research experience in data science, machine learning, and information retrieval. He earned his Ph.D. with distinction from Vienna University of Technology and completed postdoctoral research at New York University Abu Dhabi. Dr. Bashir has an extensive global teaching portfolio and has authored numerous high-impact publications, with significant contributions to large language models, data mining, and AI. He has supervised over 80 research projects and actively contributes to international journals, conferences, and funded research initiatives.