The ECE department welcomes our new assistant professor, Dr. Mahdi Imani. Dr. Imani received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Texas A&M University in 2019. His research interests include machine learning, reinforcement learning, and signal processing with special interests in scalable and risk-based decision making in complex uncertain dynamical systems. Dr. Imani was the recipient of the Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research-Doctoral in 2019, the Best Ph.D. Student Award in Texas A&M’s ECE department in 2015, and a single finalist nominee of the ECE department for the College of Engineering’s Outstanding Graduate Student Award in 2018. He also received the best paper finalist award from the 49th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2015.