Alireza Karimi received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1987 and 1990 from Amir Kabir University (Tehran Polytechnic). After 3 years of industrial experience he joined Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) in France and received his DEA and Ph. D. degrees both on Automatic Control in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He was Assistant Professor at Electrical Engineering Department of Sharif University of Technology in Teheran from 1998 to 2000. He is currently Professor of Automatic Control and the Head of the Data-Driven Modelling and Control Group within the Institute of Mechanical Engineering of EPFL. His research interests include closed-loop identification, data-driven controller tuning approaches and robust control with application on mechatronic systems and electrical grids.

- Member of doctoral program in Robotics, Control and Intelligent Systems.

- Associate Editor of European Journal of Control (2004-2013).
- Member of IFAC Technical Committee on Linear Systems and Robust Control.
- Member of IEEE-CSS Technical Committee on System Identification and Adaptive Control.
- Member of Award Selection Committee of IFAC World Congress 2011.
- IPC member of several international conferences (CIFA 2006, IEEE-MED 2008, CIFA 2012, IFAC-PID 2012, IFAC-SSSC 2013, IFAC-ACE 2016, IFAC-SSSC 2016, IFAC-WC 2017).
- Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society’s Conference Editorial Board, since 2018.
- Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology since 2026.