Reza Iravani

Who is Reza Iravani?

Reza Iravani is a professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He holds the L. Lau Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering in same department. After obtaining his B.Sc degree in 1976 in electrical engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, Iravani worked as a consulting engineer from 1976 to 1979. He then moved to Canada and received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1981 and 1985, respectively. From 1985 to 1987, he was an assistant professor at the University of Windsor, Windsor, ON.

He became a fellow of the IEEE in 2003 for his “contributions to power engineering education and modeling, design, and control of power electronic converters for power system applications.” He the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. He is also the chair of the IEEE Power Engineering Society on T&D Subcommittee on General Systems. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada.