Dr. Ali Chaibakhsh is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering with industrial and academic research backgrounds in process control and instrumentation. His main area of expertise falls on intelligent systems design and their applications in industrial process systems. His special expertise areas are within modeling, control and fault diagnosis of power generation systems. Ali Chaibakhsh received his B.Sc. degree in 2002 from University of Guilan (Rasht, Iran), and his M.Sc. degree in 2004 from K.N. Toosi University of Technology (Tehran, Iran). He received Ph.D. in 2009 from K.N. Toosi University of Technology (Tehran, Iran) in Mechanical Engineering, where he conducted his PhD research on advanced modeling and control of once-through steam power plant.