Fazlollah Reza
Fazlollah Reza was a Fellow of the IEEE and AAAS for his contribution to network and information theory. He was an honorary member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature and has written and spoken extensively on classical Persian poetry. Reza served as the head of Aryamehr University of Industry (Sharif University of Technology), University of Tehran, and was Iran’s ambassador to Canada and Iran’s ambassador to UNESCO. As a professor, he taught at MIT, McGill University, Concordia University, and the University of Tehran.
Fazlollah was born in 1915 in Rasht and was a tremendous loss to the Iranian community when he passed away in 2019. Reza graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Tehran in 1938, receiving a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He received a master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 1946 and Polytechnic University of New York (now The New York University Tandon School of Engineering) in 1950 respectively.
Main Contributions
- Fellow of the IEEE and AAAS
- Iran’s Ambassador to Canada
- Iran’s Ambassador to UNESCO
- Taught at MIT, McGill University, Concordia University, and University of Tehran
- Author of multiple books (some of which books are listed below)
- Modern Network Analysis, 1959
- An Introduction to Information Theory, 1961
- Linear spaces in engineering, 1971
- The timeless value of Persian poetry = La valeur éternelle de la poésie persane, 1972
