# 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 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.
* 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

* 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
* Dr. Rasoul Jalili from 2021
* Dr. Abbas Mousavi from 2023