Assist. Prof. Dr. Saad Zaghlul Saeed Al-Khayat was born  in April  1970. He got B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechanical  Engineering from Al-Nahrain University (Iraq) in 1992 and 1995 respectively. He worked as a supervisor  and  Maintenance Engineer in Al-Bahrain  Mechanical Factory (Iraq). He got Ph.D. in Mechatronics  Engineering from  South-Russia State Technical University (Russia) in 2010. He occupied many positions at University of Mosul. His researches interests include robotics, analogue and digital signal processing, image processing, filter banks and wavelets, artificial intelligence, conventional and adaptive controller, modern optimization techniques, path planning, and trajectory generation of robots. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Mechatronics Engineering at university of Mosul. He has more than twenty papers on robotics, intelligent controllers, and  modern optimization methods. He is the supervisor of robotics laboratory in mechatronics engineering department at Mosul university. He is the  supervisor of more than 7 M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses in mechanical and computer engineering. His current position is head of Mechatronics Engineering Department at University of Mosul.