Reza Malekian , Ph.D., is a Professor, the Dean of the Zaven and Sonia Akian College of Science and Engineering (CSE), and the Director of the Engineering Research Center. Before joining AUA, Dr. Malekian was a professor (on-leave for the new assignment), vice chair of the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology, responsible for research and doctoral education, and a member of the management group at the Sustainable Digitalization Research Centre. With extensive experience in both academia and industry, he has led active research programs and supervised numerous doctoral graduates and postdoctoral researchers under competitive national and international funding models. His research focuses on the Internet of Things (IoT), sensor systems, and networks.

Dr. Malekian is a Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council of UK, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Apart from serving on several IEEE
committee roles, such as chairing Steering Committee of the IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC), and chairing a standing committee of the IEEE Internet of Things Technical Community (IEEE IoT TC), he has been serving as an area editor for IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and associate editor for IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Sensors, and IEEE Academy on Internet of Things (IoT).

He participated in Ph.D. assessment committees at several leading universities, including Aarhus University, Western Sydney University, Mid Sweden University, Mälardalen University, the University of Pretoria, and the University of Cape Town. Dr. Malekian has also served as an expert evaluator for various international funding bodies and agencies, such as the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research in Applied and Engineering Sciences, VLIR-UOS in Belgium, and the Deputy Chair of the Engineering and Technology Review Panel for the Ministry of Higher Education and Training in the Republic of South Africa.