Alireza K. Ziarani was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1972. He studied mathematics at McGill University, Canada, and later engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he received a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2002. A tenured faculty member at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, he taught courses in engineering and science before leaving for the private sector in 2009. He currently resides with his wife in Bloomington, Indiana.

Dr. Ziarani, with co-author Dr. Mahmoud Bina, wrote the book Philosophy of Science in the Light of the Perennial Wisdom (2020), which philosopher, author, and educator Patrick Laude has called “a refreshingly direct and crisp critique of the limitations of modern science and the pretensions of scientism.”