Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

Khalid Raza, an Associate Professor, leads the Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics Lab at the Department of Computer Science, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University) in New Delhi, India. With over 14 years of teaching and research experience, Dr. Raza has made significant contributions to bioinformatics and computational intelligence by developing algorithms and methods for computational biology. He has authored or co-authored more than 140 peer-reviewed research articles in renowned international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. Additionally, he has authored and edited 15 books published by distinguished publishers such as Springer-Nature, Elsevier, and CRC. Dr. Raza’s international academic experience includes a tenure as a Visiting Professor (ICCR Chair) at the Faculty of Computer & Information Sciences, Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, during the 2017–2018 academic session. He serves as an Academic Editor for PeerJ Computer Science and as a guest editor for Computational Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry and Harnessing Nature’s Pharmacy for the Therapeutics of Lung and Respiratory Diseases in Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Product Communication, respectively. He also previously Guest Edited a Special Collection on “Phytochemicals against SARS-CoV-2 Infection” for Natural Product Communications. Dr. Raza actively collaborates with esteemed scientists from leading institutions in India and around the world, including AIIMS (New Delhi), CSIR-IGIB, DRDO-INMAS, UFMG (Brazil), and UoT Sydney (Australia).