M. Reza Elhami received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Liverpool University, UK, in 1997. He is currently Associate Professor at Mechanical Engineering Department of the Imam Hossein University (IHU), Tehran, Iran. He has been working on design and manufacturing of many industrial mechanisms in the field of control, dynamics and robotics. At present, his main research interest concern dynamic and vibration analysis in continuous media, advanced control strategies, intelligent mechanisms and advanced robotics.