Dr. Ali Soofastaei is a global artificial intelligence (AI) industrial projects leader and professional academic editor. He established the Soofastaei Institute aimed to develop the innovative application of advanced analytics and AI to tackle business challenges in different industries. This institute covers a variety of businesses, education, and publications activities in the field of applied AI for prediction, optimization, and making decisions for multidimensional systems. Dr. Soofastaei has been involved in industrial research and development projects in several industries, including oil and gas (Royal Dutch Shell), steel (Danieli), and mining (BHP, Rio Tinto, and Vale). His extensive practical experience in the industry has equipped him to work with complex industrial problems in highly technical and multi-disciplinary teams. Currently, Ali is leading the Soofastaei-Businesses, an organization focused on digital transformation, practical innovations, and value chain improvement by applying integrated AI solutions. Ali completed his Ph.D. and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia, in the field of AI applications in mining engineering, where he led a revolution in the use of Deep Learning and AI methods to increase energy efficiency, reduce operation and maintenance costs, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in surface mines. In the past fifteen years, he has provided practical guidance to postgraduate students in different prestigious universities worldwide as a principal industrial advisor. Recently, he founded an educational organization named Soofastaei-Educations. This establishment facilitates and presents educational short-term, medium-term, and long-term courses for different industrial companies and universities as Bootcamp or semester programs. Dr. Soofastaei has been known as an internationally famous keynote speaker in the field of advanced applied analytics and AI solutions to improve safety, productivity, and energy efficiency and decrease total product costs. He also directs a publication institute called Soofastaei-Publications to publish scientific journal papers and academic reference books with impressive publishers such as Springer, McGraw Hill, CRC Press, Lambert, and IntechOpen. Leading actively industrial analytical-based projects in giant industrial companies, designing and presenting innovative educational programs, keynote speaking at important conferences around the world, having more than one hundred published papers, books, and technical documents, and working with prestigious publishers to provide the scientific resources has made him a pioneer leader in creating a digital revolution in industry 4.0