Vahid Ahmadi (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1994. He was the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) Tehran, Iran, from 2006 to 2008, where he is a Professor. He has authored or coauthored more than 380 scientific articles presented in journals and conferences. His current research interests include nanophotonics, plasmonics, biophotonics, nonlinear optics, metamaterial-based devices, organic-based light sources and sensors, Perovskite-based solar cells, graphene, and 2-D materials-based photonic devices. Dr. Ahmadi is a member of the Founders-Board of Optics and Photonics Society of Iran, the Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Research, and Optical and Quantum Electronics (OQEL). He is currently the Chair of the IEEE Iran-Section and the Chair of the Optoelectronics and Photonics Research Group and the Head of the Nano-Optoelectronics Laboratory, TMU. He has also been the Editor-in-Chief of Modares Journal of Electrical Engineering.