Alireza Rezvanian received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering (Artificial Intelligence) from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran, in 2016. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Computer Engineering, University of Science and Culture (USC), Tehran, Iran. Prior to the current position, he worked from 2016 to 2020 as a researcher at the School of Computer Science at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran. He is an associate editor of human-centric computing and information sciences, CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology (Wiley), The Journal of Engineering (Wiley), and Data in Brief (Elsevier). He was 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). His research activities include soft computing, learning automata, complex networks, social network analysis, data mining, data science, machine learning, and evolutionary algorithms.