Sharareh Taghipour obtained her PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto, at the Centre for Maintenance Optimization & Reliability Engineering  (C-MORE). Her dissertation titled "Reliability and Maintenance of Medical Devices", was a collaborative project with the University Health Network. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the C-MORE working on a collaborative health research project with Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto titled “Risk factors and optimization model for breast cancer screening”. She has produced several journal papers published in the top international journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IIE Transactions, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Journal of Operational Research Society, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, and Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.

During her doctoral program, Sharareh received 22 awards and scholarships, including the best student paper award at the Reliability & Maintainability Symposium 2011; the best student paper award of the American College of Clinical Engineering 2010 and the 3rd place at the student paper award of the American College of Clinical Engineering 2011. She won in Australia the 2010 Asset Management Council Postgraduate Research Award. She was the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering’s nominee for the 2011 Governor General’s Gold Medal to honor academic excellence at the graduate  Level, and in 2012 for the CAGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award and for the John Leyerle-CIFAR Prize for Interdisciplinary Research.