Mehdi Sadaghdar

Mehdi Sadaghdar is an Iranian Canadian electrical engineer and YouTube personality. His videos are "hilariously painful tutorials" of electric experiments during which he often receives electric shocks. As of August 2016, his channel ElectroBOOM has more than 800,000 subscribers. His most viewed video with over 7 million views is a tutorial on how to make a coilgun.

He was born in Iran in 1977 and currently resides in Vancouver, Canada. He earned a degree of Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) from the University of Tehran in 1999 and a degree of Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.) from the Simon Fraser University in 2006.