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.

- 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.