Rashid Mirzavand (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree from the Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, in 2004, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran, in 2007 and 2011, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 2012 to 2015, he was an Research Assistant Professor with the Amirkabir University of Technology.

Since 2015, Dr. Mirzavand has been the Principal Scientist and the Head of Research and is currently the Director of the Intelligent Wireless Technology Laboratory and an Assistant Professor with the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. He is also an Adjunct Fellow with the Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Dr. Mirzavand is the co-founder and the chief technology officer of three companies in the smart sensor, near-field measurement, and wireless power transfer technologies from the University of Alberta. He is the (co)author of more than 170 papers published in refereed journals and conferences proceedings. His major research interests include, but are not limited to, RF/microwave/mm-wave circuits, sensors, antennas, numerical methods, and measurement systems.

Dr. Mirzavand received various awards, such as the Best AUT M.Sc. Researcher in 2007, the Best AUT Ph.D. Researcher in 2011, the Best MICT National Researcher in 2013, the National Elite Foundation Young Professor Grant in 2014, the AITF Elite PDF in 2015, the Honorable CMC Industrial Collaboration in 2017, the TEC Edmonton Innovation in 2019, the CMC Industrial Collaboration in 2021 as the Supervisor, and the UofA Innovation in 2021.