After a year he had overcome his cancer, but he died on July 8, 2010, from intestinal infection resulting from a medical mistreatment which happened during a colonoscopy.
[2][3][4][5] He was a professor, and founding director of the Center of Excellence for Control and Intelligent Processing (CIPCE), school of electrical and computer engineering, University of Tehran,[6] as well as a researcher at the School of Cognitive Sciences (SCS), Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran.
He served as the director of school of intelligent systems, IPM (1993–1997)[7] and chairman of the ECE Department at the University of Tehran (1986–1988).
[8][9][10][11][12][13][14] He had been a pioneer in presenting new multi-disciplinary graduate courses like biologic computing, general systems design, and advanced topics in socio-cognitive systems, where, he has presented courses (and supervised theses) in different disciplines and departments like Electrical and Computer Engineering, Management, Psychology, Fine Arts and Architecture, and Finance and Economics.
He was also the founder of the ISRF, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics and has assisted in founding several new research organizations and engineering disciplines in Iran.