Ali Akbar Jalali

Ali Akbar Jalali
Ali Akbar Jalali at the entrance celebration of the new Iran University of Science and Technology
Born	Ali Akbar Jalali (1954-11-22) November 22, 1954 (age 71) Shahkooh, Shahroud
Other names	Father of Information Technology in Iran
Years active	1994 - present

Ali Akbar Jalali (Persian: علی‌اکبر جلالی), born on November 22, 1954, in Shahroud, Iran, is a computer scientist, university lecturer and researcher of Iranian information technology sciences. He is one of the first people who played a role in the development of the Internet in the villages of Iran, and for this reason, he is also called the "father of information technology in Iran".^[1][2][3]

Career and research

Jalali has served on the faculty of the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) since the 1990s, working on campus IT initiatives and advising on national ICT programs.^[4] In the early 2000s he helped launch an “Internet village” project in Shahkooh (Golestan Province), a pilot highlighted in contemporary reporting for bringing connectivity and basic computer training to rural residents.^[5][6] Aspects of these rural ICT efforts were later discussed in policy and research studies on the socio-economic effects of ICT in Iranian villages.^[7]

Jalali’s publications span control systems and applications of ICT. They include a study co-authored with Mohammad-Reza Okhovvat and Morteza Okhovvat proposing a tailored model for rural e-commerce adoption in Iran.^[8]

References

1. "ببینید | اشک‌های معروف پدر IT ایران به خاطر ترس مسئولان از اینترنت". www.khabaronline.ir (in Persian). 2019-11-29. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
2. "موج چهارم در راه است ; گفت وگویی با دکتر علی اکبر جلالی". hawzah.net. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
3. "پروفسور جلالی از مفاخر کشور است". خبرگزاری مهر | اخبار ایران و جهان | Mehr News Agency (in Persian). 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2023-09-05.
4. "Dr Aliakbar Jalali". Iran University of Science and Technology. Retrieved 2025-09-24.
5. "Iranian Village Gets Wired for the Web". Tehran Times. 2002-07-11. Retrieved 2025-09-24.
6. "Iranian Village Finds a Niche in Wired World". The Washington Post. 2002-08-17. Retrieved 2025-09-24.
7. "The Socio-economic impacts of ICTs in rural Iran". UNESCO. 2005. Retrieved 2025-09-24.
8. Jalali, Ali Akbar; Okhovvat, M. R.; Okhovvat, M. (2011). "A new applicable model of Iran rural e-commerce development". Procedia Computer Science. WCIT 2010. 3: 1157–1163. doi:10.1016/j.procs.2010.12.187. Retrieved 2025-09-24.

External links

• Ali Akbar Jalali in Iran University of Science and Technology
• Ali Akbar Jalali in IEEE
• Ali Akbar Jalali in ACM Digital Library
• Ali Akbar Jalali in Researchgate