Sadegh Vaez-Zadeh (Persian: صادق واعظزاده) (born 10 April 1959) is an Iranian politician and professor.
He served the university as the Head of the Power Division from 1998 to 2000 and is currently the Director of the Advanced Motion Systems Research Laboratory, which he founded in 1998.
He has been active in IEEE-sponsored conferences as the general chair, a keynote speaker, and as a member of technical and steering committees.
He was the first candidate to officially register in the 2013 Iranian presidential elections, stating that his campaign was in response to public demand for change.
[7] As part of his campaign, he stated he had "designed a comprehensive plan to solve inflation", which had long plagued Iran's economy as a result of years of international sanctions.