Gholam Ali Montazer was born on 22 March in 1969 in Davan village located 10-km away from Kazeroon city (Faras Province, Iran). He spent his childhood in Abadan and Shiraz and received his high school Diploma as the first-ranked student from Towhid high school in Shiraz in 1987. In the same year, having been elected to the National Students Mathematics Competitions, he has been admitted in Electrical Engineering Department at Khaje Nasireddin Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran and graduated in 1992. Then he continued his education at Tarbiat Modares University and received the MSc. and Ph.D. degree both in Electrical Engineering in 1993 and 1998, respectively. He joined Tarbiat Modares University as a faculty member since 1999 and know works as a Full Professor of Information Technology in School of Engineering. He has commenced his research activities in two main disciplines: “Information Technology (IT)” and “Science and Technology Policy (STP)”. By the beginning of the 21st century, Information Technology has become one of the most powerful enabler technology and expanded in all fields of science and technology. After completing his education, He changed his research sphere into IT, consequently, he founded the first IT Research Institute in Iran at Tarbiat Modares University. He managed to turn the institute as one of the most significant research center in IT field in Iran. In addition, he founded “Iranian Conference on E-Learning and E-Teaching(ICELET)” accompanied by Dr. Parvin Kadivar (Kharazmi University), Dr. Ahmad Kardan (Amirkabir University of Technology) and Dr. Fattaneh Taghiyareh (University of Tehran) in 2006. The conference is taken into account as the most active conference in IT field in Iran which are held with the presence of fully-fledged professors and researchers from all walks of the world. Moreover, he established The Iranian Association of E-Learning (YADA) with the aid of expertise in 2011 and being elected as the director of the association (2011-2018) for two consecutive periods. Researching in various fields of IT, including “E-learning”, “E-government”, “Soft security” and “Intelligent system design using soft-computing methods” are his main research activities. In addition, the publication of more than 400 articles, writing 7 books, managing 56 national research projects and 4 international ones as well as the membership of editorial board of 3 scientific journals and being the referee for more than 60 international and domestic scientific journals has turned him as the most prominent IT scientist in Iran. So far,