Dr. Javad Akbari

Professor of Manufacturing
at Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Sharif University of Technology

Phone:
+98-21-6616-5535

Fax:
+98-21-6600-0021

Email:
akbari [AT] sharif.edu

Address:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Azadi St., Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Postal Code: 1458889694

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Javad Akbari is a Professor of Manufacturing at Sharif University of Technology. His research primarily focuses on material removal using various machining processes, and in recent years, he has expanded his work to include additive manufacturing techniques.

Dr. Akbari earned his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran) in 1985, followed by a Master's from Utsunomiya University (Japan) in 1990 and a Ph.D. from Chiba University (Japan) in 1993. From 1993 to 1995, he worked as a CNC machine tool designer at Seiko Instruments Inc. During his academic career in Japan, he was awarded a six-year Japanese government scholarship and an AIEJ postdoctoral fellowship. He also received a DAAD scholarship from Germany, enabling him to collaborate with KSF at Furtwangen University.

Since 1995, Dr. Akbari has been a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology. During this time, he took two sabbatical leaves-first as an Associate Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (2000-2003) and later as a Professor at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2012-2014). He serves on the editorial board of the Amirkabir Journal of Mechanical Engineering and has chaired the Iranian Society of Manufacturing Engineering.

With 11 years of experience living and working in Japan's academic and industrial sectors, Dr. Akbari is fluent in Japanese. Beyond his university roles, he spent two years at Seiko collaborating with Japanese engineering teams, conducted research at the Chiba Prefectural Industrial Technology Research Institute for two years, and taught for three years at Tokyo Tech, Japan's top engineering university. There, he gained expertise in micro- and nano-scale manufacturing processes at the Precision and Intelligence Laboratory. Additionally, he has three years of teaching experience in Malaysia's international academic environment.

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