Mahmoud Ahmadian Attari is Professor and Head of Coding and Cryptography Laboratory (CCL) in the Department of Electrical Engineering at K.N.Toosi University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. He joined K.N.Toosi in 1990. He has previously held positions at the Teacher Training University (currently Kharazmi University), Alzahra University, and the Ministry of Culture and Higher Education (currently Ministry of Science, Research and Technology). He received his M.Eng. degree from the University of Tehran in 1977 and Ph.D. degree from the University of Manchester in 1996.

His main professional interests are within the areas of Error Correcting Codes, Cryptography, and Secure Communications. He has published some 70 journal papers on these topics, he is the author of the textbook "Error Control Codes in Telecommunication Systems" in Persian (K.N.Toosi Univ. Press, 2013).

Since 2013 he has served as member of Communications and signal Processing Chapter of IEEE Iran Section. He is active in conference organization, most recently as the General Chair of the ISCISC’2010 Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Technical Program Committee in IWCIT’2015, . IWCIT’2014, IWCIT’2013 and ISCISC’2011, ISCISC’2012, ISCISC’2013, ISCISC’2014, ISCISC’2015, ISCISC’2016, ISCISC’2017.