Nima graduated with a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and a master's degree in Structural Civil Engineering from the University of Tabriz (One of the ten top universities in Iran). He is currently studding his 2nd Ph.D. at University of Miami (UM) with distinguished professor Dr. Antonio Nanni. He got his 1th Ph.D. at the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) with distinguished professor Dr. Ali Kaveh. His main research interests lie in steel structures, particularly in the experimental and numerical investigation of Steel braced frames with Dr. Siamak Talatahari. In addition, he has been actively involved in engineering optimization, especially Evolutionary algorithms, with Dr. Seyed Ali Mirjalili. Using comprehensive finite element analyses, he has also investigated different shaped sections in steel frames. Recently, he has been engaged in research in the area of engineering optimization, especially in solving large-scale and practical structural design problems.