Gholamali Montazer
Gholamali Montazer is an information technology researcher whose work spans computer vision, artificial intelligence, e-learning and science policy. Born in Davan, he studied electrical engineering through a PhD at Tarbiat Modares University. He founded an IT research institute, held senior research-administration posts and helped build e-learning organizations in Iran. His work includes a video-game depth dataset and studies of policy networks and adaptive e-learning; he received the International Kharazmi Award in 2005. As of October 2026, he is a full professor of information technology at Tarbiat Modares University.
Timeline
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1969–1998
Electrical engineering education
Born in Davan in 1969, he spends his childhood in Abadan and Shiraz and graduates top of his class at Towhid High School in 1987. He enters electrical engineering at Khaje Nasir Toosi University of Technology in 1987, graduates in 1992, and earns master's and PhD degrees in electrical engineering at Tarbiat Modares University in 1993 and 1998.
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1999–2003
Faculty and an IT institute
He joins Tarbiat Modares University as a faculty member in 1999. From 2001 to 2003, he founds and leads the university's IT Research Institute.
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2003–2017
National research leadership
From 2003 to 2006, he is general director of the Academic Office and of higher education at Iran's Ministry of Science. From 2006 to 2009, he serves as deputy of the Research Center of Policy Studies and vice president of Iran's Research Institute for Information Science and Technology from 2009 to 2013. From 2013 to 2017, he is vice president of planning and supervision at the National Elite Foundation.
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2005
International Kharazmi Award
He receives the International Kharazmi Award in 2005.
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2006–2018
E-learning conference and association
He co-founds the Iranian Conference on E-Learning and E-Teaching in 2006. In 2011, he establishes the Iranian Association of E-Learning and serves as its director through 2018.
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2018
Playing for Depth
In 2018, he coauthors “Playing for Depth,” a computer-vision paper that presents a reproducible depth dataset captured from video games. Its experiments show that synthetic data improves monocular depth estimation in the wild.
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2021–2024
Policy networks and adaptive learning
In 2021, he coauthors a study that maps Iran's science and technology policy network with social-network analysis, using 25 policy documents and interviews with 20 policy experts. In 2024, he coauthors a study that groups e-learners by learning styles and models their network behavior with Fuzzy Set Theory.
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As of October 2026
Information technology professor
As of October 2026, he is a full professor of information technology at Tarbiat Modares University in Iran. His research interests include artificial intelligence, soft computing, intelligent systems and e-learning.
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