He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer–software engineering in 2006 and 2009, respectively. Later on, he received a PhD degree in computer engineering at Dokuz Eylul University, in 2014. He has domestic and international academic and sectoral experiences, and he has founding and leadership experience in research laboratories such as WSN, IoT, and ML. He also served as the department chair in the computer and software engineering departments. His research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks, Smart Cities, IoT, Bioinformatics, Reinforcement Learning, Distributed Systems, and Optimization Algorithms. Dr. Kiani has undertaken various roles in national and international projects and has publications in many indexed journals and three books. He is currently working as an Full Professor at FSM University's computer engineering department and he is also director of VEBIM AI R&D center.