ADEL ALAHMADI received a Ph.D. degree from Ohio University, USA. He has visited various international institutes for research collaborations. Among others, he visited the University of California at San Diego, USA, the University of Padua, Italy, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, and the Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), Seoul, South Korea. He is currently a Professor of algebra and its applications with the Department of Mathematics, College of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is also the Founder and the Head of the Research Group in Algebraic Structures and Applications (ASA). His research interests include algebra and its applications in coding theory and AI. Prof. Alahmadi held several leadership positions and committee memberships. on research and development, and international conferences.

Malak Altaiary received an M.S. degree in mathematics from King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 2016, where she is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in mathematics. Since 2013, she has been a Lecturer at the University of Shaqra, Shaqra. Her research interests include coding theory and ring theory.

PATRICK SOLÉ received the Ingénieur and Dr.-Ing. degrees from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France, in 1984 and 1987, respectively, and the Habilitation á Diriger des Recherches from Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1993. He has held visiting positions with Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA, from 1987 to 1989; Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, from 1994 to 1996; and Lille University, Lille, France, from 1999 to 2000. Since 1989, he has been a permanent member of CNRS, where he was a Senior Scientist, in 1996. He is currently a member of the CNRS Lab, I2M, Marseilles, France. His research interests include coding theory (codes over rings and quasi-cyclic codes), interconnection networks (graph spectra and expanders), vector quantization (lattices), and cryptography (Boolean functions and pseudorandom sequences).