Amirhossein Nikoofard was born in 1986. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2008 and 2011, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, in 2016. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering with the K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran. His current research interests include nonlinear and adaptive estimation, optimization, adaptive control, game theory, soft computing, such as fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms and MPC.