Siamak Mehrkanoon is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at Maastricht 木瓜福利影视. He received his PhD degree in Machine Learning in 2015 at , Belgium. He was a visiting researcher at the Department of Automation at , Beijing, China, in 2014, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at , Waterloo, ON, Canada, from 2015 to 2016, and a Visiting Post-Doctoral Researcher at Cognitive Systems Laboratory, , T眉bingen, Germany, in 2016. He was an FWO Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Stadius Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, KU Leuven from 2017-2018. His current research interests encompass deep learning, neural networks, kernel-based models, unsupervised and semis-supervised learning, pattern recognition, numerical algorithms, and optimization. He has received several Fellowships/Grants for supporting his scientific researches, including PDM from KU Leuven and prestigious Fund for Scientific Research from FWO Flanders. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Neurocomputing and is a member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).