Dr. Mehbodniya is an associate professor and head of ECE department at Kuwait College of Science and Technology (KCST). Before coming to KCST, he worked as a Marie-Curie senior research Fellow at university college Dublin, Ireland and prior to that he worked as an assistant professor at Tohoku University, Japan and as a research scientist in advanced telecommunication research (ATR) international, Kyoto, Japan. Dr Mehbodniya received her PhD from INRS-EMT University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada in 2010. His research interests are in the field of communications engineering, IoT and artificial intelligence in wireless networks and real world applications. He is the recipient of numerous awards including JSPS young faculty startup grant, KDDI foundation grant, Japan Radio Communications Society (RCS) active researcher award, European commission Marie Skodowska-Curie Fellowship and NSERC Visiting Fellowships in Canadian Government Laboratories. He is a senior member of IEEE and IEICE.