APSIH Officers
Dr. Mani Firouzian
Dr. Mani Firouzian earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University Pomona and M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental and Civil and Environmental Engineering, respectively, from University of California Irvine. He holds a Professional Engineer license in Chemical Engineering in the state of California and multiple Greenhouse Gas Accredited Lead Verifier licenses from California Air Resources Board.
He has been working in the field of engineering for the past 17 years in different capacities such as Senior and Supervisor Engineering roles. During this period, he served multiple engineering and consulting firms as well as few government agencies including Orange County Sanitation District, South Coast Air Quality Management District, Trinity Consultants Company, B. Braun Medical, Fluor Enterprises, Inland Empire Utility Agency, and Trussell Technologies Company.
Dr. Vahid Balali
Dr. Vahid Balali is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management at CSULB.
Dr. Javad Seif
Assistant Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, College of Engineering Calpoly Pomona
Dr. Mo Sangeladji
Emeritus Professor Mo Sangeladji received his Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Oklahoma in 1975. He taught 5 years at University of Texas, San Antonio before moving to California. He started his teaching as a full time Professor at CSUN in September 1979. He is certified public accountant (CPA), certified management accountant (CMA), certified cost analyst (CCA), and a Diplomat of the American Board of Forensic Accounting. He started his accounting firm of M.A. Sangeladji in 1983 providing accounting and tax services to small and medium-sized clients.
He also taught as senior adjunct professor at California Lutheran University (CLU) from Fall
2007 till 2016. During 37 years of teaching, Professor Sangeladji has trained over 10,000 students, who are today successful accountants, managers, executives, employees, and above all trustworthy and ethical individuals.
Standing Committee Chairpersons
Dr. Bijan Roboubi
Bijan Roboubi is the founder and principal attorney at Abar Law, a boutique estate planning and business planning law firm based in Long Beach, California. Prior to establishing his law firm in 2020, Dr. Roboubi was a senior construction manager at the Port of Los Angeles, where he managed over $150 million worth of heavy civil and marine construction projects. Dr. Roboubi is a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona and USC, where he earned his Bachelor‘s and Master’s degrees in Civil Engineering, respectively, and he is also a graduate of Loyola Law School.
Dr. Mohammad Navab
Dr. Mohamad Navab is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Cardiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, with 32 years of research experience in the study of atherosclerosis, lipids and artery wall metabolism.
Dr. Jalal Torabzadeh
Professor Jalal Torabzadeh is Chair of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department and Coordinator of the Mechanical and Petroleum Engineering programs.
Dr. Kamran Abedini
Professor Kamran Abedini is one of the founding members of APSIH and a former Chair of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Dr. Cyrus Ashayeri
PhD in Petroleum Engineering at USC, Dr. Ashayeri’s research focuses on the energy industry and the application data science and advanced machine learning techniques.
Dr. Tina Givrad
Dr. Givrad has earned B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and has worked for Boeing as a system engineer. Her Ph.D. is in biomedical engineering from USC. Dr. Givrad has completed 4 years of postdoctoral research at USC and her research interest is in development of young adult brain.
Dr. Givrad is currently teaching at departments of Mathematics and Biology at California State University of Los Angeles.
APSIH AWARD
Annual Graduation Ceremony Honoring Academic Achievements by Students of Iranian Heritage
