Dr. Sahra Sedigh Sarvestani is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), a Research Investigator with the Intelligent Systems Center, and the Faculty Ombuds at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. She serves as distance learning coordinator for the ECE department.

She holds a BS in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Iran), and an MS in electrical engineering and PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University.

Her research centers on modeling and predicting failure propagation and dependability for complex systems and processes, with focus on cyber-physical systems. A secondary thrust of her work is personalized learning, specifically through educational technology. Her past and present research sponsors include the National Science Foundation, the US and Missouri Departments of Transportation, the Department of Education, the National Security Agency, the European Union, and private industry.

She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium and is committed to making higher education accessible to low-income students. She has served as the principal investigator of two NSF Scholarships for STEM (S-STEM) grants and two Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) awards, for a total of over $3M in grants focused on broadening access to undergraduate and graduate education in engineering and computing. 

She is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a co-advisor of the IEEE-HKN Gamma Theta Chapter, and a member of IEEE-HKN, where she served as co-editor-in-chief of the IEEE HKN Bridge.  She has served as technical program committee chair of multiple international conferences, including the International Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC), the flagship conference of the IEEE Computer Society. She is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Dependability and Security and has served on the editorial board of multiple journals. Her service has been recognized with the IEEE Computer Society’s Golden Core award.