Dr. Iman Ardekani obtained his B.Eng. and M.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Tehran in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and his dual Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Auckland in 2011 and 2020, respectively. He is currently a Senior Lecturer and Discipline Lead in the Department of Mathematics and Data Analytics at the University of Notre Dame Australia. His research focuses on Control Theory and Optimization, Bayesian Inverse Problems, Computational Intelligence, and AI. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Life Member of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA), a member of the Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM), a member of the New Zealand Mathematical Society (NZMS), and a member of the Australian Council of Heads of Mathematical Sciences (ACHMS).