Citizenship Iran | Residence Tehran, Iran | |
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Institutions Iran's National Elites Foundation
Tarbiat Modares University Fields Computer vision, Artificial neural network, Fuzzy logic | ||
Gholam Ali Montazer (Persian: غلامعلی منتظر; born 1969, Kazeroun) is the deputy director of Iran's National Elites Foundation and an associate professor in the Tarbiat Modares University. He received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 1993 and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, in 1995 and 1999, respectively.
Montazer is an associate professor in the department of information technology at school of engineering, Tarbiat Modares University (TMU). His areas of research include soft computing approaches such as artificial neural network (ANN), fuzzy set theory (FST), rough set theory (RST), evolutionary computation and their applications in pattern recognition, e-learning systems, and e-commerce environment. He is the editor-in-chief of Iranian Journal of Information Technology (JIT) as well as an editorial board member for International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM) and Journal of Science and Technology Policy (JSTP).
Awards and honors
Montazer has received many national and international awards such as Kharazmi International Award (KIA) in 2005, the Best Academic Book Author (BABA) for the book Nonlinear Control in 2003. ISESCO recognized him as the distinguished researcher in information technology (IT) in 2004. He is also the winner of Shaheed Rajaei 2nd best Research Award (2009) and the National Distinguished Specialist in Information Technology (2010). He was the general chair for the National Conference on IT and Industry in Iran in 2005 and the general chair for the National Symposium on The Most Appropriate Technologies for Iran (2010).