Abolfazl Khalkhali received his M.Sc. (Eng.) in Mechanical Engineering in 2005 and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mechanical Engineering in 2010 from The University of Guilan, Iran. He was faculty member at Engineering Department of the Islamic Azad University, East Tehran Branch from 2007 to 2011. He has served as the Head of Mechanical Engineering Department and also Dean of Engineering Department at the Islamic Azad University, East Tehran Branch. He came to the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) in 2011. He is currently associate professor at the School of Automotive Engineering in IUST. He was Deputy of Chancellor in Research and Education of the School of Automotive Engineering in IUST from 2011 to 2015. He is also the head of Automotive Simulation and Optimal Design research laboratory in IUST. His research interests are automotive body structural design, finite element analysis and simulation, multi-objective optimization, productfamily and platform design, GMDH-type neural networks, robust and reliability-based design and optimization using evolutionary algorithms.