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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tarbiat Modares University, I. R Iran
Professor Ahmad R. Sharafat is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran; Member of the Iranian Academy of Sciences; Vice-Chairman of Telecommunication Development Advisory Group; Chairman of the Management Committee of APT; Chairman of APT Preparatory Group for WTDC-21; and past Chairman of ITU-D Study Group 2. He received his B.Sc. degree from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, and his M.Sc. and his Ph.D. degrees both from Stanford University, Stanford, California, all in Electrical Engineering in 1975, 1976, and 1981, respectively. He has been active in specialized international organizations in the field of telecommunications and information technology, and in particular, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT). He has published extensively in scientific scholarly refereed journals, has numerous presentations to international conferences, has co-authored four books, and has twelve patents.