Ismael Abdulrahman is an assistant professor at Erbil Polytechnic University in the Department of Information System Engineering. He earned his doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from Tennessee Technological University, USA, and his bachelor's and master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Al-Mustansiriyah University and Sulaimani University, respectively. He is the first author of several original journal papers in electrical and computer engineering. His research interests include machine learning, quantum computing, quantum machine learning, classical and quantum optimization, intelligent control and electrical systems. He teaches advanced mathematics, quantum computing (master’s and Ph.D. levels), as well as advanced deep learning and computer vision (master’s level). He also has a series of educational videos on YouTube about quantum computing and deep learning in the Kurdish language. Currently, he is supervising two Ph.D. students and one master's student in the field of quantum machine learning.