Dr. Ali Safari Khatouni received his B.S. degree in Software Engineering from Urmia University, Iran, and M.S. and PhD degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University in Prof. Nur Zincir-Heywood's research group. His research interests lie in the areas of network traffic analysis, machine learning, and mobile broadband networks. He has teaching experience at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He has been an instructor in the "Mobile Computing", "Introduction to Database Systems", and "Introduction to Data Mining and Data Warehousing" courses at Dalhousie University. He also has teaching experience in a graduate level "Network Measurement Laboratory" at Politecnico di Torino. Moreover, He has obtained valuable experience in several European research projects (Mplane, MONROE).
