Ali Mosleh

Ali Mosleh is an American engineer, researcher, and educator recognized for his contributions to probabilistic risk assessment (PRA), system reliability, and risk-informed decision making. He is Distinguished Professor and Evalyn Knight Chair in Engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and the founding Director of the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Early life and education Mosleh was born in Tehran, Iran. He earned a Bachelor of Science in physics from Sharif University of Technology in 1975, and later moved to the United States to pursue graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), obtaining a Master of Science in Nuclear Science and Engineering in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1981.

Academic career Following completion of his doctorate, Mosleh was a senior consultant at PLG Inc. until 1988. Mosleh began his academic career at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he eventually reached the title of Nicole J. Kim Eminent Professor of Engineering in 1996 and served as the Director of the Center for Risk and Reliability starting in 2004.

Honors and awards Mosleh has received numerous recognitions for his work in reliability and risk sciences, including: Election to the National Academy of Engineering (2010) “for contributions to reliability engineering and probabilistic risk assessment.”