List of Sharif University of Technology people

This is a list of notable alumni and faculty members of the Sharif University of Technology by profession.

Ali Akbar Salehi current head of Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation, is a professor of Mechanical Engineering and two-term president of Sharif University of Technology

Academics[]

• Farhad Ardalan, Professor of Particle Physics, APS Fellow
• Ehsan Afshari, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan
• Mohammad-Reza Aref, Professor of the Electrical Engineering department
• Reza Ghotbi, former lecturer of Maths
• Mehdi Bahadori, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• William Chittick, Professor of Religious Studies at the State University of New York
• Mohammed Ghanbari, Professor of Electronic Systems Engineering at the University of Essex
• Mehdi Golshani, theoretical physicist and philosopher
• Fariborz Haghighat, Professor of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University
• Ali Hajimiri, Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
• Payam Heydari, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine (UCI)
• Ali Jadbabaie, Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and MIT
• Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, Inventor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor at the UNSW
• Reza Mansouri, Professor of physics at SUT and a visiting professor at the McGill University
• Alireza Mashaghi, Scientist at Harvard University and the Leiden University
• Maryam Mirzakhani, Professor of Mathematics at the Stanford University
• Mohammad Mahdi Nayebi, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Sharif University of Technology
• Behzad Razavi, Professor of Electronics at the UCLA
• Fazlollah Reza, former Chancellor and professor at the MIT, McGill University, and University of Tehran
• Sayed Khatiboleslam Sadrnezhaad, Professor of Metallurgical Engineering
• Ali Akbar Salehi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Jawad Salehi, Professor of Mechanical and Computer Engineering
• Homayoun Seraji, former Jet Propulsion Laboratory senior researcher
• Mohammad Shahidehpour, Director of Electrical Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology
• Siavash Shahshahani, Professor of Mathetmatics
• Saeed Sohrabpour, current Chancellor and professor in Mechanical Engineering
• Rahmat Shoureshi, President of Portland State University

Business[]

• Alex Mehr and Shayan Zadeh, founders of Zoosk.^[1]
• Behdad Esfahbod, former Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google

Government and politics[]

Ali Larijani, former Speaker of the Iranian Parliament.

• Morteza Alviri, former Mayor of Tehran
• Mohammad Atrianfar, politician
• Majid Farahani, reformist politician
• Ali Larijani , former Speaker of the Iranian Parliament
• Mohammad-Ali Najafi, politician and advisor
• Abdul Rahman Saleem, Islamic activist
• Maryam Rajavi, president of the PMOI
• Foad Mostafa Soltani, Kurdish political leader
• Abdul Rahman Saleem, British-Iranian Islamist activist

Arts and media[]

• Adel Ferdosipour, prominent football commentator
• Mohsen Sazegara, journalist and political activist
• Peyman Yazdanian, pianist

Sports[]

Ali Daei giving a speech at SUT.

• Ali Daei, retired footballer with all-time highest International goalscorer record
• Elshan Moradi, chess grandmaster

Presidents[]

• Dr. Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi from 1965
• Prof. Fazlollah Reza from 1968
• Dr. Mohammad Reza Amin from 1968
• Dr. Hossein Nasr from 1972
• Dr. Mehdi Zarghamee from 1975
• Dr. Alireza Mehran from 1977
• Dr. Hossein Ali Anvari from 1978
• Dr. Ali Mohammad Ranjbar from 1979
• Dr. Abbas Anvari from 1980
• Dr. Ali Akbar Salehi from 1988
• Dr. Mohammad Etemadi from 1993
• Dr. Sayed Khatiboleslam Sadrnezhaad from 1995
• Dr. Saeed Sohrabpour from 1997
• Dr. Reza Roosta Azad from 2010
• Dr. Mahmud Fotuhi Firuzabad from 2014

References[]

• Sharif University of Technology - Former Presidents

See also[]

• Higher education in Iran
• List of University of Tehran people
• List of Iranian scholars