He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran in 2006, his M.S. degree in Communications, Systems, Electronics from Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany in 2008, and his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. Between 2011 and 2014, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the ECE department of the University of Illinois and Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include applied probability theory, distributed optimization, control and estimation, population dynamics, and evolutionary game theory. He is a 2014 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control's outstanding reviewer.