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Lecturer Biographies

Hasan Babaie. Dr. Babaie received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1980. He has a B.S. and an M.S. in Mathematics from Tehran University, Iran, and an Aircraft Maintenance Teaching Certificate from ICAO. His areas of interest and research are in Analog, Microwave and High Frequency Circuits. He has been teaching in the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA for 25 years, where he is a full time Senior Lecturer in the department. Dr. Babaie received the Electrical Engineering Department Teaching Award (2001/2002) from UCLA, as well as several other awards from other universities.

Arlen Baghda-Sarian. Dr. Baghda-Sarian received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University in 1962 and his M.S. degree, also in Electrical Engineering, from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964. He was a design and development engineer with Hewlett-Packard from1964 to 1966 and an Associate Professor at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, from 1966 to 1999. Since 2000, he has been a lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles. His areas of interest include electromagnetics, fields and waves, and antennas.

Revaz Dzhanidze. Dr. Dzhanidze received a graduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Georgia in 1966, and Ph.D. and the Doctoral degrees in Electrical Engineering from Institute of Cybernetics (Georgia) in 1972 and 1991, respectively. He joined the UCLA Computer Science Department in 1995.

Mahmood Heyrat. Dr. Heyrat received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1983. He has a B.S. and an M.S. in Physics from Shiraz University (formerly Pahlavi), Iran, and Sharif University (formerly Arya-Mehr), Iran, respectively. His areas of interest and research are in Mathematical Physics, QCD, and Electronics. Dr. Heyrat has taught at several universities, including UCLA, Cal-Poly Pomona, Cal State Northridge, and Northrop University, during the last 20 years. He has been teaching at Northrop Rice Aviation Institute of Technology for last 10 years, where he also has served as the Dean of Academics. Dr. Heyrat joined the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA in January 2004.

Farid Mesghali. Dr. Mesghali received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1984. He has a B.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 1974 and an M.S. degree from the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio in 1976, both in Electrical Engineering. He joined ST Systron Donner Corporation in 1984 as senior microwave design engineer. He is currently working at Boeing Satellite Systems as a scientist. His area of interest is design and development of satellite communication payloads. He is a member of IEEE and recipient of the Henry Samueli Excellence in Teaching Award in recognition of outstanding performance as an instructor for the 2000-2001 academic year.

Gershon Weltman. Dr. Gershon (Gersh) Weltman is an internationally respected expert in individual and collective simulation, with a strong emphasis on human factors and user interface design. He holds a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Man-Machine Systems from the University of California, Los Angeles. As a faculty member at the UCLA School of Engineering, he taught courses in human factors and humanities for engineering students. He also conducted research in biomedicine and on human performance underwater.