Ali Mirala received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2011, and M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran, in 2014. He is now a graduate research assistant in the Applied Microwave Non-destructive Testing Lab (amntl) of Missouri University of Science and Technology. His research interests include theoretical electromagnetics, computational methods in electromagnetic engineering, and microwave non-destructive testing technique.