Parham Nooralishahi is a specialist in embedded and intelligent vision systems and currently is a Ph.D. student at Laval University working on developing drone-enabled techniques for the inspection of large and complex industrial components using multi-modal data processing. He is a researcher with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunication industry and industrial inspection and in-depth expertise in robotics & drones, embedded systems, advanced computer vision & machine learning techniques, and soft computing. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence). During his bachelor's degree, he was involved in designing and developing all the controlling and monitoring systems for a fixed-wing drone for search & rescue purposes. Also, during his Master's degree, he worked extensively on machine learning and computer vision techniques for robotic and soft computing applications. Mr. Nooralishahi has been the recipient of several awards and medals including a gold medal in IEEE RoboPride, a silver medal in FIRA RoboWorld cup, PECIPTA, and IIDEX competitions. Moreover, Mr. Nooralishahi worked at Huawei Technology Co. to develop enterprise systems for monitoring and troubleshooting of the telecommunication networks and to apply AI and software solutions for the digitalization of processes resulted in several awards including the 2018 Annual Delivery Transformation Star and Huawei DevOps Hero awards.