Dr. Shahab Shojaei-Zadeh currently serves as the Director of the Particulate and Multiphase Processes Program at the National Science Foundation. In addition, he manages the AI Institute in Dynamic Systems at the University of Washington and serves as co-lead of the COMPASS Science and Technology Center at the University of Michigan. He is also managing a range of cross-cutting programs, including Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF), Engineering Research Initiation (ERI), Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI), and Major Research Instrumentation (MRI), among others. He was honored with the NSF Director’s Award for Superior Accomplishment, one of the agency’s highest recognitions.

He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and subsequently held a Levich Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Benjamin Levich Institute at the City College of New York. Prior to joining the NSF, he served as a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University.