Dara Moazzami

Dara Moazzami is the translator of the widely used and popular textbook on "Graph Theory" by J. A. Bondy and U.S.R. Murty and "Combinatorics" by Bela Bollobas. He is also the author of a textbook on "Differential Equations", which is widely used by Iranian students all over the world. He is the translator of the textbook "Abstract Algebra: Theory and Application" by Thomas W. Judson, (2017). He is also the author of three textbooks on "Tenacity Parameter and Their Application in Designing Stable Networks" and "Stability and Vulnerability in Networks" and "Graph Drawing". Two more books "Advanced Algorithm: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness" and "Approximation Algorithms" are currently in the works.

In 2016 the first group of Ph.D. Students were accepted into this Department.

He was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA (2010-2012).

One of the oldest departments in the College of Engineering at the University of Tehran was the Department of Engineering Basic Sciences which was established to provide general courses such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, literature, and so on for engineering students. Later, in 2007, under the supervision of Prof. Dara Moazzami this department became the Department of Engineering Science, which he became a Chairman of. Since Dr. Moazzami, was the leader of the team to establish the first Department of Engineering Science (University of Tehran) in Iran, he has been entitled as the Father of Engineering Science in Iran.

With the efforts of Prof. Dara Moazzami, the Department of Algorithms and Computation was established in 2005 when he became the Chairman of the Faculty of Engineering Science.

Between the years 1993 and 2003, he worked as a research scientist at the Center for Theoretical Physics and Mathematics as well as the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. He is a research staff member at Engineering Optimization Research Group (2002–present) and a member of the Board of "Center of Excellence of Geomatic Engineering" (2005–present).

Conceptually, graph vulnerability relates to the study of graph intactness when parts of its elements are removed. The motivation for studying vulnerability measures is derived from the design and analysis of networks in a hostile environment. Graph tenacity has been an active area of research since the concept was introduced in 1992. Dr. Moazzami introduced two measures of network vulnerability termed the tenacity, T (G), and the Mix-tenacity, Tm (G), of a graph. The tenacity T (G) of a graph G is defined as

After graduating from the University of Quebec-Montreal, he returned to Iran and started working at Bu-Ali Sina University in the city of Hamedan. In 1986, while he was in Hamedan, Dr. Moazzami translated a book on Differential and Integral Calculus by Piskunov into Persian. He got married there and later moved to the United States with his family to obtain a doctorate in applied mathematics. In 1992, he received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics (Graph Theory) from the University of Northeastern-Boston MA, under the supervision of Professor Margaret Cozzens and Professor Samuel Keith Stueckle. He worked as an Assistant Professor for the 1991-1993 academic years in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Barry-Miami, in Florida. After that, he returned to Iran and started his teaching and research career in the College of Engineering at the University of Tehran in 1993. He was the Head of Engineering Library (2000-2003), Associate Dean of the College of Engineering (2003-2006), Deputy of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies at the Department of Engineering Basic Science (2006-2008), and finally the Chairman of the Department of Engineering Science (2007-2017). He also founded the Journal of Algorithms and Computation and has remained as its Editor-in-Chief till present.

The Journal of Algorithms and Computation, currently, published in English, is a continuation of the Journal of the Faculty of Engineering "Fani" at the University of Tehran. This journal was published in Persian from 1980 till 2012. The Journal of "Fani" published 43 volumes during this period. Following 2012, the Faculty of Engineering has concluded to have several journals in English.

Dara Moazzami (born 10 December 1949) is an Iranian engineering scientist.

Dara Moazzami was born to a famous and well-educated family. He was born on December 10, 1949, in Tehran, Iran. He attended the highly prestigious Alborz High School located in the heart of Tehran, Iran.

Dara's uncle, Dr. Abdollah Moazzami was a famous professor of law at the University of Tehran who received his Ph.D. in law under the supervision of Professor Gilbert Gidel. He was also a member of the Iranian Parliament for four consecutive terms from 1944 to 1953. In 1953 he was elected as the Chairman of the Parliament. Dara's other uncle, the late Seyfollah Moazzami was an electrical engineer and a minister of post and telegraph in the second cabinet of the Prime Minister Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh. Growing up in such a family influenced Dara Moazzami and he eventually moved to Canada to study mathematics. He received a B.Sc in Pure Mathematics in 1976, and an M.Sc in Applied Mathematics in 1978, from the University of Quebec-Montreal in Canada.

After the establishment of the University of Tehran in 1934, the College of Engineering, as one of the first six faculties of the University was founded through the efforts made by the late Professor Mahmoud Hesabi. It began its activities by admitting 40 students in the fields of Civil, Electromechanical, and Mining Engineering in the same year.