Dr. Mohammad Ali Raayatpanah [محمدعلی رعایت پناه], Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences and Computer [دانشکده علوم ریاضی و کامپیوتر] at Kharazmi University [دانشگاه خوارزمی] in Tehran [تهران], Iran [جمهوری اسلامی ایران]. Dr. Raayatpanah is a researcher in the fields of operations research and distributed computing, with special interest in linear and mixed integer programming, network flows theory and algorithms, communication networks, and network coding.

Dr. Raayatpanah has received Ph.D. in 2009 in Applied Mathematics at the University of Tehran [دانشگاه تهران], after receiving M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in the same field in 2004 at the University of Tehran, Iran and in 2000 at the University of Kashan [دانشگاه کاشان], Iran, respectively. Dr. Raayatpanah has published several works in journals such as the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Computer Networks, the Optimization Letters, the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, the Journal of Network and Computer Applications, and the International Journal of Communication Systems. He also already conducted several international research stays at prestigious institutions including the University of Florida, USA (2012/10-2013/04), the Chinese University of Hong Kong [香港中文大學] (2015/07-09), Tsinghua University [清华大学], Beijing, China (2016/07-09),  Fudan University [复旦大学], Shanghai, China (2017/07-09) and at Hefei university,  Hefe, China (2018/07-09).