Mohammadreza "Reza" Iranpour

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Mohammadreza "Reza" Iranpour

PhD Student
Majoring in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Mohammadreza “Reza” Iranpour is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, specializing in control and power engineering, at UCLA and a graduate researcher at the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences under the supervision of Professor Ali Mosleh. His research integrates engineering simulation, optimal control, probabilistic modeling, machine learning, and geometric methods to develop rigorous, scalable approaches for risk, reliability, and resilience assessment, optimization, control, and intelligent decision-making in complex infrastructure systems.

Reza received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Northridge (CSUN), where he worked on an NSF-funded project involving convex relaxation, global optimization, and power-system cybersecurity. His thesis developed AC false-data-injection attack design and detection methods using nonlinear optimization, quadratic convex relaxation, and branch-and-bound algorithms. This work received the IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference Best Paper Award and the CSUN Best Thesis Award. He also developed data-driven co-simulation frameworks for evaluating the large-scale impacts of diverse system drivers, like the effects of electric-vehicle charging on power systems. His earlier research developed information - and graph-theoretic methods for assessing the reliability and resilience of interdependent critical infrastructure.

Outside of research, Reza’s main interests are watching movies, playing football, and, of course, watching FC BARCELONA matches as a lifelong Barça fan.

Helia Fazlazarsharabiani

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Helia Fazlazarsharabiani

Her research at the Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences focuses on risk-informed modeling and optimization of pipeline infrastructure, with particular emphasis on corrosion degradation mechanisms, pipeline integrity management, and data-driven inspection and maintenance planning.

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Alexandre Guinand

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Alexandre Guinand

PhD Student
Majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Alexandre Guinand is a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, working under the supervision of Dr. Enrique López Droguett. He holds a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an engineering degree from ESTP Paris, where he specialized in mechanical and electrical engineering after completing a rigorous two-year preparatory program in mathematics and physics in France.

Alexandre is affiliated with the John Garrick Institute for Risk Sciences at UCLA. His research focuses on the development of computational and probabilistic decision-support tools for complex energy and environmental systems. His current work includes a CEC-funded wildfire risk project, which aims to integrate climate projections, large-scale simulation models, and probabilistic risk assessment to support long-term decision-making and resilience planning at regional and infrastructure network scales.