**About the Editor**

**Hamid Khayyam** received his B.Sc. degree (Hons.) from the University of Isfahan, his M.Sc. degree from the Iran University of Science and Technology, and his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Deakin University, Australia. Dr. Khayyam has worked in automation and energy productivity in various industrial companies for more than ten years. In his previous position, he was leading the efforts on modelling, control and optimization of energy systems in the carbon fiber production line at Carbon Nexus, Deakin University. Dr. Khayyam is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, School of Engineering at the RMIT University, Australia. He has contributed more than 100 articles to professional journals and currently serves on several Editorial Boards of ISI journals. Dr. Khayyam's research is focused on instituting new technologies in support of to develop distinctive approaches for the integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning, for solving complex energy systems, towards developing simple and procedural approaches for end-users of these technologies. Dr. Khayyam is an academic member of Intelligent Automation Research Group (IARG) at RMIT in Australia and The Materials and Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI) at The University of British Columbia in Canada. Dr. Khayyam is a Senior Member of IEEE and actively involved in Power and Energy and Intelligent Transportation Systems Societies.
