Dr. Sedaghati is a full professor and Concordia Research Chair (CURC-Tier I) in Smart Materials and Adaptive Structures in the department of mechanical, industrial and aerospace engineering at Concordia University. He received his PhD in mechanical engineering from University of Victoria, BC, Canada in 2000. After completing his PhD, Dr. Sedaghati was awarded Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) post-doctoral fellowship and worked in Canadian Space Agency, John. H. Chapman Space Center. Dr. Sedaghati is currently registered profession engineer (PEO), fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), Fellow of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME), Fellow of American Society of mechanical Engineers (ASME) and associate fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Dr. Sedaghati serves as the associate editor of the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures and in editorial board of a number of journals including Vibration and Actuators. He also served as the general chair of 30th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies (ICAST2019), one of the oldest and well-known conference in the area of smart materials and adaptive structures.