Electrical engineering
Ali Abbaspoor Tehrani Fard earned a bachelor of science in electrical engineering ranking in first place in his class from Amirkabir University of Technology and a master's degree in Electrical engineering from the University of Tehran with highest distinction. With a scholarship from MIT, Tehrani-Fard earned a master's degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering, and in 1983 he earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, USA.