Rasool Jalili

Rasool Jalili (born 19 August 1961), also known as Rasoul Jalili, or R. Jalili, is an Iranian academic, serving as associate professor at the Faculty of Computer Engineering of Sharif University of Technology. He is a member of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace and visiting professor at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences since 2004.

Biography Jalili was born in 1961 in Fars province, Iran. In 1985, he graduated in computer science at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. In 1989, he obtained master's degree in computer science at Sharif University of Technology. Later, Jalili obtained his doctoral studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he specialized in distributed operating systems and earned his PhD in 1995.

Since 1995, Jalili has been a faculty member at Sharif University of Technology, focusing on both teaching and research in computer engineering. He has also served as a visiting professor at the University of California, Davis, from October 2009 to August 2010. He has also been linked to actions to block Iranian citizens' access to popular websites, including Facebook, eBay, YouTube, as well as independent news outlets, blogs, and activist platforms. His company, AmnAfzar, was reportedly engaged in providing software used for internet filtering and censorship in Iran.

In January 2026, the European Union also issued sanctions.