Keivan Torabi

Keivan Torabi, PhD, P.Eng.

East Central Region Councillor

Keivan Torabi wants to be a strong voice on PEO Council for practising engineers. He is concerned by those companies who take advantage of the industrial exception in the Professional Engineers Act. As a result, the great majority of P.Eng. licence holders in Ontario do not need their P.Eng. designation to work. He is working on an initiative to eliminate the loopholes to better protect the public’s interest and make the P.Eng. licence relevant to the careers of all engineers. Torabi has a diverse educational background. He has four chemical engineering degrees (BSc, MSc, MASc and PhD). His academic papers are cited by other researchers globally in areas of data mining for polymer processing, simulation of distillation columns and the application of artificial intelligence to real-time quantitative image analysis. His PhD work in AI was published 15 years ago, when AI applications were mostly unnoticed in engineering. He has more than 25 years of engineering experience in the fields of safety, licensing and risk assessment, oil and gas, and nuclear power generation and transportation. He has worked in the Canadian nuclear industry at Ontario Power Generation (Pickering and Darlington nuclear stations) as well as Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Candu Energy (SNC-Lavalin) and AMEC. He currently works on safety and reliability of the latest generation of signalling systems for driverless subway trains at Thales Canada. He was a seasonal instructor at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University. He is a first-generation immigrant, a self-taught oil-painting artist and an avid tennis player. You can find out more about him at www.KeivanTorabi.com.