Alireza Rezvanian received the B.Sc. degree from Bu-Ali Sina University of Hamedan, Iran, in 2007, the M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering with honors from Islamic Azad University of Qazvin, Iran, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering at the Computer Engineering Department from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran, in 2016. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Engineering, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran. He worked from 2016 to 2020 as a researcher at the School of Computer Science from the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran. He has authored or co-authored more than 70 research publications in reputable peer-reviewed journals and conferences including IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and Taylor & Francis. He has been a guest editor of the special issue on new applications of learning automata-based techniques in real-world environments for the journal of computational science (Elsevier). He is an associate editor of both human-centric computing and information sciences (Springer) and CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology (IET). His research activities include soft computing,learning automata, complex networks, social network analysis, data mining, data science, machine learning, and evolutionary algorithms.