Alireza Rezvanian received 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 Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Engineering, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran. Since 2016, he has been a researcher in the School of Computer Science at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran. He has authored more than 70 research publications in reputable peer-reviewed journals and conferences, including IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis. He has been 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 human-centric computing and information sciences (Springer), CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology (Wiley), The Journal of Engineering (Wiley), and Data in Brief (Elsevier). His research activities include complex networks, social network analysis, machine learning, learning automata, data mining, evolutionary algorithms, and soft computing.