Reza Ghabcheloo received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2007, with a thesis titled “Coordinated Path Following of Multiple Autonomous Vehicles”. Important visits during his doctoral studies include the Department of Engineering Cybernetics of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, and the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), California, USA. From 2007 to 2008, he was a postdoc researcher with the Instituto Superior Técnico, Institute for Systems and Robotics, Lisbon, Portugal, where he researched networked control systems. He then moved to Finland as a senior researcher from 2008 to 2014 with the Department of Intelligent Hydraulics and Automation of Tampere University of Technology, Finland, working within the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence on Generic Intelligent Machines. In 2015, he started an associate professor position at Tampere University. He has been leading the curriculum planning team for the Robotics major at Tampere University since 2018. He is the founder of the autonomous mobile machines research group at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences of Tampere University. His research interests are at the intersection of robotics and working machines, optimization and machine learning, motion control, and perception. He has published over 80 journal and conference articles in these areas.