Dr. Hamid Reza Marateb is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Isfahan, Iran, and a Senior Researcher at the Biomedical Engineering Research Center, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) BarcelonaTech, Spain. He completed his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He holds the Spanish R3 research certificate and has received several distinctions, including the Marie Curie TecnioSpring and Beatriu de Pinós fellowships, and recognition among the top 1% of Web of Science researchers in Clinical Medicine. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a Senior Collaborator of the Global Burden of Disease Study. He has led and contributed to major national and international projects, including EU-funded research on COVID-19 risk assessment and Horizon Europe HybridNeuro. He has published over 120 scientific papers and serves in editorial roles for international biomedical engineering and neuroscience journals. His teaching includes biomedical engineering, biostatistics, medical data mining, and artificial intelligence. His research interests include biomedical signal processing, AI in healthcare, digital health, clinical prediction, trustworthy AI, cardiovascular risk assessment, and medical-device evaluation.