Ghassan G. Kanaan, Born in Jordan, 1962. Ph.D. in computer science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, U.S.A. 1997.

            He is a Prof. of Computer Science, he is an Acting president at Amman Arab University,  Amman, Jordan; he served in several universities where he served as a Vice President, Dean of IT College at Amman Arab University,  chairman in Computer Information Systems department at Yarmouk university,  he had many consultancy assignments in the areas of education in Jordan and He is interested in database systems; currently he is interested in the area of Arabic Natural Language Processing Research and Arabic Information retrieval. He had supervisor for more than 20 PhD students.