Reza Ebrahimi Atani graduated from Razi high school of Rasht in 1998; he studied Electronics Engineering at the University of Guilan in Rasht, Iran. He got his B.Sc degree in 2002 and at the same year he was accepted to follow his masters study at Iran University of Science & Technology (IUST) in Tehran, Iran. He joined the Electronics Research Center of IUST and received the M.Sc degree in Electronics-VLSI design in 2004 and again at the same year he was accepted to pursue his studies as a full-time PhD student in IUST. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2010 where he worked on "Design and implementation of a stream cipher for mobile communications" as his PhD dissertation. He joined computer engineering department of the University of Guilan in May 2010 as an assistant professor and now he is holding associate professor position in that department. His main research interests focuses on design and implementation of cryptographic algorithms and protocols.