Wali Khan Mashwani received the M.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Essex, U.K., in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor of mathematics and the Director of the Institute of Numerical Sciences, Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. His personal H-index is 12, and he has published a total of 119 papers. The total citations of his papers amount to 904 times. He has published 7 times in top journals such as AEJ - Alexandria Engineering Journal, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, and Applied Soft Computing Journal.