Mehdi Khashei received the B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the Isfahan University in 2002; the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering from the Isfahan University of Technology in 2005 and 2013, respectively. He currently is the assistant professor at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, Iran. He is author or co-author of several scientific papers in international journals or communications to conferences with reviewing committee. The main his research interests include Artificial Intelligence; Soft Computing; Time Series Forecasting; Classification and Clustering, Soft Intelligent Decision Making; and Financial Management and Engineering.