Dr Mehrdad works as a Lecturer of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Electrical Engineering at Northumbria University. He completed his PhD at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman in 2017. Prior to joining NU in 2023, he was a postdoctoral research fellow for five years at:

• Department of Applied Mathematics, Institute of Statistics National Chung Hsing University, Taichung-Taiwan (November 2021 - January 2023)
• Department of Statistics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad-Iran (March 2021 - November 2021)
• Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria-South Africa (November 2018 - February 2021)

His statistical research primarily is in the related fields of classification, cluster analyses, factor analysis, linear modeling, as well as multivariate and matrix-variate analyses in the field of applied statistical inference. He focuses on using finite mixture models and on estimation via the EM algorithm. A common theme of his research in these fields has been statistical computation, with particular attention being given to the methodology of distribution theory.