Mario received his M.Sc. degree and B.S. degree in Computer Ccience from the Lebanese American University (LAU). He is currently a Research Fellow at the LAU Cyber Security Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence Research Center and at Mohamad Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He was a Research and Teaching Assistant at the Lebanese American University. His current research interests include fog and cloud computing, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Federated Learning, and Cyber Security.