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Alireza Karimi earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Amir Kabir University (Tehran Polytechnic) in 1987 and 1990, respectively. He then obtained his DEA and Ph.D. degrees in Automatic Control from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) in 1994 and 1997, respectively. From 1998 to 2000, he served as an Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. Later, he joined the Automatic Laboratory of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, Switzerland. Currently, he is a Professor of Automatic Control and the head of the "Data-Driven Modelling and Control" group. His research interests include data-driven controller tuning and robust control, with applications to mechatronic systems and electrical grids.