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.

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, Chancellor's 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
Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
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 Mathematics
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

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
Hamid Naderi Yeganeh, mathematical artist
Mohsen Sazegara, journalist and political activist
Peyman Yazdanian, pianist

Sports

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

Presidents

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No.	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Time served	Ref.
1		Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi	1965	1967	2 years	^[2]
2		Fazlollah Reza	1967	1968	1 year
3	N/a	Mohammad Reza Amin	1968	1972	4 years
4		Seyyed Hossein Nasr	1972	1975	3 years
5	N/a	Mehdi Zarghamee	1975	1977	2 years
6	N/a	Alireza Mehran	1977	1978	1 year
7	N/a	Hossein Ali Anvari	1978	1979	1 year
8	N/a	Ali Mohammad Ranjbar	1979	1980	1 year
9		Abbas Anvari	1980	1982	2 years
10		Ali Akbar Salehi	1982	1985	3 years
11		Abbas Anvari	1985	1989	4 years
12		Ali Akbar Salehi	1989	1993	4 years
13	N/a	Mohammad Etemadi	1993	1995	2 years
14	N/a	Sayed Khatiboleslam Sadrnezhaad	1995	1997	2 years
15	N/a	Saeed Sohrabpour	1997	2010	13 years
16		Reza Roosta Azad	2010	2014	4 years
17		Mahmud Fotuhi Firuzabad	2014	2021	7 years
18		Rasool Jalili	2021	2023	2 years
19		Abbas Mousavi	2023	Incumbent	3 years, 170 days

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Notable alumni

Alumni in academics include the late Maryam Mirzakhani, professor of mathematics at Stanford University and the first woman to be awarded a Fields Medal.

Imprisoned human rights blogger Kouhyar Goudarzi was an aerospace student at Sharif University until pressure from state security forces allegedly caused his dismissal.^[3] Omid Kokabee, an applied physics and mechanics alumnus,^[4] was arrested while visiting Iran during his postdoctoral research in University of Texas at Austin.^[5] He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for "communicating with a hostile government" and "illegitimate/illegal earnings."^[6] Mohammad-Ali Najafi ranked first in the Iranian national university entrance exam, and enrolled in Sharif University.^[7] He became a mathematician, reformist politician, and murderer, as he was the Mayor of Tehran for eight months, became a professor at the university, and then in May 2019 murdered one of his two wives.^[8].