Mohammadreza Amirian received a M.Sc. degree in Communications Technology from Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, in 2017. He is currently working as a researcher at the Institute of Applied Information Technology (InIT) of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Winterthur, Switzerland and simultaneously pursuing a Ph.D. degree at Ulm University. Besides his research interests in biophysiological signal processing for person-centered medical and affective pattern recognition, his current research focuses on interpretable deep-learning algorithms for industrial applications and automated deep learning.