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Professor Aliakbar Jalali has received his Ph.D. from the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (LCSEE) at the West Virginia University (WVU). He is currently an adjunct professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and at the University of North America (UoNA). He has been teaching several courses in these universities since 2017. He also was teaching and researching in the school of Electrical Engineering at the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) for about 30 years. Throughout his work he has defined, led, and managed research and development teams in the areas of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Internet of Things (IOT), 3D Printers and Control Systems Design and their Applications.
Jalali is well-known for his activities towards the development of ICT and its applications on a national level and as a UNESCO chair in e-learning at an international level. Since 1994, he has had hundreds of speeches, workshops, seminars, lectures, and programs in national and international events for establishing the benefits of ICT applications.
Jalali has written and translated 50 books or chapters in addition to more than one hundred journal and conference papers. He is the author of reference books in advanced control systems theory, titled “Reduced Order Systems”, Springer, 2006. Jalali has given a theory known as “Virtual Age: Next Wave of Change in Society”, about 30 years back which the world is recognizing it today as Metaverse!
Professor Jalali is the winner of the best creativity and innovation of the 2007 eASIA Award, Bridging Digital Divide, for his project “The First Rural ICT Center and the first Internet village in Iran”, from UNESCO and UN. He received the President’s award, known as “distinguished engineer of IoT in Iran for year 2015”. He also received the biggest prize of “International Public Relation”, for year 2009, which alongside of this prize, he honors to receive the title of “Father of Information and Communication Technology in Iran”.