Prof. Arafat Awajan is a full professor at Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT). He received his PhD degree in computer science from the University of Franche-Comte, France in 1987. He held different academic positions at the Royal Scientific Society and Princess Sumaya University for Technology. He was appointed as the chair of the Computer Science Department (2000-2003) and the chair of the Computer Graphics and Animation Department (2005-2006) at PSUT. He had been the dean of the King Hussein School for Information Technology from 2004 to 2007, the Dean of Student Affairs from 2011- 2014, the director of the Information Technology Center in the Royal Scientific Society from 2008-2010 and the dean of the King Hussein School for computing Sciences from 2014 t0 2017. He is currently the vice president of Princess Sumaya University for Technology.

His research interests include: Natural Language Processing, Arabic Text Mining and extraction knowledge fro text.