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. 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
No. Portrait Name Took office Left office Time served Ref. 1 Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi 1965 1967 2 years 2 Fazlollah Reza 1967 1968 1 year 3 Mohammad Reza Amin 1968 1972 4 years 4 Seyyed Hossein Nasr 1972 1975 3 years 5 Mehdi Zarghamee 1975 1977 2 years 6 Alireza Mehran 1977 1978 1 year 7 Hossein Ali Anvari 1978 1979 1 year 8 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 Mohammad Etemadi 1993 1995 2 years 14 Sayed Khatiboleslam Sadrnezhaad 1995 1997 2 years 15 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
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. Omid Kokabee, an applied physics and mechanics alumnus, was arrested while visiting Iran during his postdoctoral research in University of Texas at Austin. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for "communicating with a hostile government" and "illegitimate/illegal earnings." Mohammad-Ali Najafi ranked first in the Iranian national university entrance exam, and enrolled in Sharif University. 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..
See also Higher education in Iran List of University of Tehran people List of Iranian scholars
References
Sharif University of Technology - Former Presidents