Education
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 nuclear engineering from the University of Tehran with highest distinction. With an scholarship from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tehrani-Fard earned a bachelor and a master’s degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Fuel Engineering Management of Nuclear Power Plant, and in 1983 he earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Energy, Power Plant Technology, Nuclear Energy from the University of California at Berkeley, United States of America.
After obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley, Tehrani-Fard returned to Iran and joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering as an assistant professor at the Sharif University of Technology. Later, he served as the President of Sharif University of Technology.