Arman is the Engineering Research Chair in Emissions Reduction Technologies and an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta. He is a well-published and registered computational engineer with over a decade of professional experience (since 2009). His area of expertise includes fluid mechanics, fluid-structure-interactions (FSI), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and engineering design. Arman has completed his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Calgary with distinction. Following his undergraduate studies, he obtained his PhD in the area of Fluid Mechanics, CFD and FEA. Upon completion of his PhD, Arman joined the Gas Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University in 2016. Following his successful career at Princeton, Arman joined the University of Alberta in 2018. He has over 100 publications and has presented as a scholar on various prestigious international symposiums and conferences.

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Arman is a member of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). As a Professor, Arman has instructed several courses in Strength of Materials, Applied Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and CFD/FEA. Arman's experiences in the energy industry started at Royal Dutch Shell, where he worked as a Maintenance & Integrity Engineer and then Production Technology Researcher for several years. He has gained valuable experiences on numerical analysis and design in areas of heavy oil extraction, multiphase flow metering, drilling, down-hole R&D, sour gas processing,  in-situ heating, and joule heating. Arman has a diverse consulting experience as well, which includes forensic engineering (i.e., PSV failure), energy and environment  (i.e., tailing-pond piping slug removal), heat exchangers, drilling and several others.