Alireza Forghani is the Engineering Lead of Numerical Methods at Convergent Manufacturing Technologies Inc. in Vancouver, Canada. As the lead of Numerical Methods, Alireza oversees the development of novel modeling methods to simulate various aspects of the manufacturing process of composite structures. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Prior to joining Convergent in 2014, Alireza received his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from UBC in 2011 and worked as a research associate and lecturer at that same institution.