Dr. Allahyar Montazeri holds a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology. He is a Senior Lecturer in Control and Electronics Engineering in the Engineering Department at Lancaster University. His industrial experience includes the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (FhG-IDMT) and Bosch industries. Before this appointment, he was a research fellow with Fraunhofer IDMT, Ilmenau, Germany, and in the Control Engineering Group at Ilmenau University of Technology. He has been a guest lecturer for the Master Program in Communication and Signal Processing, Ilmenau, Germany, since 2012. He was a visiting research fellow at Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH, Zurich and Process Control Group, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is currently Associate Editor of Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Computational Intelligence in Electrical Engineering, Topical Advisory Panel of Automation MDPI, and serving on IFAC Technical Committees “Adaptive and Learning Systems” and “Modelling, Identification, and Signal Processing”. His research interests include Adaptive Signal Processing and Control, Robust Control, Linear and Nonlinear System Identification, Estimation Theory, and Evolutionary Computing and Optimization with applications in Active Noise and Vibration Control Systems, and Wave Energy Conversion.