Modjtaba Rouhani received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control and robotics from the Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2002. From 2002 to 2014, he was with the Islamic Azad University of Gonabad, Gonabad, Iran. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. His current research interests include neural networks and deep learning models, evolutionary and swarm intelligence, and intelligent control.