Mahdi Nikdast currently serves as an Associate Professor and Rockwell-Anderson Endowed Professor at Colorado State University since September 2017. Prior to this role, Mahdi held positions as a Postdoctoral Fellow at both Polytechnique Montréal and McGill University from September 2014 to September 2017, and as a Visiting Scholar and Graduate Research Assistant at HKUST from September 2009 to August 2014. Mahdi earned a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Electronic and Computer Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology between 2009 and 2013.