{"id":42520,"date":"2021-11-08T23:15:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T04:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=42520"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:29:00","slug":"ali-arya","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/people\/ali-arya\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Arya"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ali Arya\u202fis currently an Associate Professor of Interactive Multimedia. Arya has received a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic, Iran, and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia, Canada. With years of experience in the industry as a software engineer and project manager, and also research and teaching positions at various academic institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023 Ali Arya received the <a href=\"https:\/\/ocufa.on.ca\/press-releases\/ocufa-awards-of-distinction-announced\/\">OCUFA Awards of Distinction<\/a>, which recognizes his innovation and dedication to teaching and the higher education community. In the same year, he was also named one of <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2023\/professors-ali-arya-and-manuel-a-baez-receive-carleton-university-chair-in-teaching-innovation\/\">Carleton University&#8217;s Chair in Teaching Innovation<\/a> for his commitment to teaching innovation and advancing inclusive learning approaches in the classroom. In 2020, he&nbsp;received the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/awards-and-grants\/internal-awards\/provosts-fellowship-in-teaching-award\/\">Provost\u2019s Fellowship in Teaching Award<\/a> for his leadership and commitment to teaching and learning and is now designated as a Carleton University teaching fellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42523,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Ali ","cu_people_last_name":"Arya","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[37],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-42520","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-teachingawardwinners-a"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/42520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/42520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46971,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/42520\/revisions\/46971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=42520"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=42520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}