Together with Prof. Matthias Finger (EPFL, Switzerland), Dr. Mostashari is the co-lead of the Intelligent Governance of Large-scale Urban Systems (IGLUS) Project, a consortium of 16 universities in 16 major megacities across five continents studying the future of urban systems and leveraging information technology and embedded sensor networks to provide better services to citizens worldwide.  

Dr. Mostashari's scholarly interests include sustainable development, complex sociotechnological systems such as the cognitive/smart power grid, transportation and energy infrastructure systems and complex social/organizational systems. He teaches courses on Systems Engineering Research Methods, Infrastructure Systems and Dynamic Modeling of Systems and Enterprises. During his time at Steven, Dr. Mostashari has served as a Principal and co-Principal investigator on major research grants related to port infrastructure resilience, cognitive enterprises and agile systems engineering concept of operations.He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Systems/Technology, Management and Policy from MIT, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering/Transportation from MIT, a Master of Science in Technology and Policy from MIT, a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering/Biotechnology with a minor in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska, a Graduate Certificate in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering/Energy Systems from Sharif University of Technology.