Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam received his BSc and MSc degrees, both in Electrical Engineering, with 1st Class Honor in 2008 and 2010, respectively from the Sharif University of Technology and University of Tehran, Iran. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Sydney, Australia, in 2015. He is currently a Lecturer at the Centre for IoT and Telecommunications, The University of Sydney. His general research interests include Coding and Information Theory and Internet of Things technologies. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). In 2018, he was selected as one of the Top 50 Young Scientists in the World by the World Economic Forum for his contributions to the development of IoT technologies.