Theoretical & Applied Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Born in Yazd, a small historic city at the geographic center of Iran, Reza received his BSc in Mechanical Engineering and MSc in Applied Mechanics from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He then joined the Mechanical Engineering program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. He received his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 2005, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2008, and then served as a Postdoctoral associate (2008-2009) and Lecturer (2009-2011) at MIT. In July 2011 Reza joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley.
Theoretical Fluid Dynamics,
Ocean Renewable Energy,
Ocean and Coastal Waves Phenomena,
Dynamical Systems, Nonlinear dynamics,
Fluid Flow Control,
Applications: Ocean Renewable Energy, Greener ships, Deep Sea Mining, Climate Modeling
American Bureau of Shipping Endowed Chair in Ocean Engineering, 2017-
Associate Professor, UC Berkeley, 2017-
Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley, 2011-2017.
Lecturer, MIT, 2009-2011.
Taflab Genealogy Map (it goes back to ~ 13th century! Courtesy of Ahmad who used a Python package to get the info and then graphiz to plot this graph).
Disclaimer: This is just for fun, and absolutely for no other purpose. We do not believe in superiority based on ancestors, race, nationality, etc in any context. We, in fact, believe that it is the least successful and most insecure people who use things they have had no contribution to whatsoever (like race, nationality, gene, ancestors, etc) to label others inferior, and to make themselves falsely look superior. We take pride only in our scientific contributions achieved through hard work and rigorously conducted research