Seyedali Mirjalili is a professor of business and hospitality at Torrens University. He has gained international recognition for his contributions to nature-inspired artificial intelligence techniques, with over 500 published works that have received more than 80,000 citations and an H-index of 90. He has been on the list of the top 1% of highly-cited researchers since 2019, and Web of Science named him one of the most influential researchers in the world. In 2022 and 2023, The Australian newspaper recognized him as a global leader in artificial intelligence and a national leader in the evolutionary computation and fuzzy systems fields. He serves as a senior member of IEEE and holds editorial positions at several top AI journals.