I received B.Sc. degree form ECE Department at University of Tehran in 2005, the M.Sc. degree from BME Department at Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) in 2007, and Ph.D. degree from EECS department at York University in 2013. From 2013 to 2015, I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Multimedia Lab, in the ECE Department, at the University of Toronto working with Professor K.N. Plataniotis.

I am currently an Assistant Professor with Concordia Institute of Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

I am serving IEEE Signal Processing Society at the capacity of Director Membership-Services. I am also the Vice-Chair of IEEE Signal Processing Montreal Chapter, and; Serving as the General Chair of Symposium on Advanced Bio-Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Medical Cyber-Physical Systems under 2018 IEEE Global Signal Processing Conference (GlobalSIP).

I was the Lead Guest Editor for an Special Issue in IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing Over Networks entitled "Distributed Signal Processing for Security and Privacy in Networked Cyber-Physical Systems"; General Chair of Symposium on Advanced Bio-Signal Processing and Rehabilitation and Assistive Systems under 2017 IEEE Global Signal Processing Conference (GlobalSIP); Organizing Committee of Special Session on Bio Signal Processing for Movement Assessment, Neuro-Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies, under 2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, and; Organizing Committee Chair of "IEEE Signal Processing Society Winter School on Distributed Signal Processing for Secure Cyber-Physical Systems".

I am a Senior Member of the IEEE; A member of IEEE Signal Processing Society Membership Board; IEEE Signal Processing Society Publication Board, and IEEE Signal Processing Society Conference Board.