Mahmood Reza Azizi received his MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bu Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran, in 2008. He also received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering and Control Systems from the faculty of mechanical engineering of Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran, in 2018. His research interests include dynamics, motion planning and control of robotic systems. He also has interest in multi-body dynamics, design and implementation of nonlinear control systems, intelligent control and model predictive control. He is currently working as Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham.