Isfahan University of Technology - Notable People

Notable People

Here is a list of notable people affiliated with the Isfahan University of Technology, commonly including alumni, chancellors, current and former faculty members, students, and others.

Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei is an influential Iranian politician. He is a top adviser to the Iranian president and the president's chief of staff. He was appointed on 31 December 2007 to run the newly founded National Center for Research on Globalization. He is a former head of the Cultural Heritage Organization of Iran. Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei was for a short time Vice President of Iran. He studied electrical engineering and holds a bachelor's degree from Isfahan University of Technology.

Mohammad-Reza Aref is an Iranian academic, electrical engineer and politician. He was the vice president of Iran under President Mohammad Khatami. He received the Bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from Tehran University and the Master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and communication engineering from Stanford University in 1975, 1976 and 1980, respectively. Until 1994, Mohammad-Reza Aref was a faculty member of Isfahan University of Technology.

Mohammad-Ali Najafi is an Iranian politician and university professor in mathematics. He has been a minister and later a vice president for planning and budget; he has run for a seat in Tehran City Council in the Iranian City and Village Councils elections, 2006. After the Iranian revolution of 1979, Najafi returned to Iran, immediately beginning his political career. He started as a consultant to Mostafa Chamran and was later the president of Isfahan University of Technology (1980–1981).

Mohammad Tabibian is an Iranian economist who served under the administration of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as deputy director of the Planning and Budget Organization. Dr Tabibian was head of groups made First Five Year Plan (1989–1993) and Second Five Year Plan of Iran (1994–1998). He has been called Iran's foremost free-market economist and one of the country's most important reformers. He has taught at the Isfahan University of Technology.

Ahmad Shirzad was a reformist member of the 6th Iran Parliament (Consultative Assembly of Iran) and a leading official in Islamic Iran Participation Front, the main reformist party in Iran. He teaches physics in Isfahan University of Technology.

Mortaza Saghaeian Nejad is the mayor of Isfahan and a faculty member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Isfahan University of Technology.

Amir Faghri is an American professor and leader in the engineering profession as an educator, scientist, and administrator. He is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Faghri served as head of the Mechanical Engineering Department 1994–1998 and dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Connecticut from 1998 to 2006. He is arguably the world’s leading expert in the area of heat pipes and a significant contributor to thermal-fluids engineering in energy systems. He was one of the founding faculty members and administrators who established Isfahan University of Technology in 1977.