Amir completed his B.Sc. in (Fluid) Mechanical Engineering (University of Urmia 2004), M.Sc. in (Systems and Control) Mechanical Engineering (Iran University of Science and Technology 2008), M.Sc. in Automatic Control Enginerring (Politecnico di Torino, 2010) and Ph.D. in Information Technology (Robot Learning in Politecnico di Milano 2015). From 2015 to 2018, he was a postdoc and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham working on Robtic grasping and manipulation, and teleoepration. He joined the University of Lincoln (School of Computer Science), UK, in Nov. 2018 as Senior Lecturer. In July 2020, he joined The Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology (LIAT) as Associate Professor to lead Selective Harvesting research theme.