Background

Faraz holds dual honors degrees from the University of Arizona, a B.S. in Mathematics and an Honors B.A. in Computer Science. He is the founder of Ostor Consulting, which offers risk management, narrative economics, adversarial data, and AI business consulting services. He has published papers in finance and portfolio management. He won multiple contests such as the American Statistical Association's Datafest best visualization award, and gold medals in IGO. He previously taught at other institutes in Vancouver, where his students qualified for AIME and achieved perfect scores.

One of the most accomplished olympiad coaches working anywhere in the world, having trained over 30 IMO medalists. Amirhossein Zabeti is a gold medalist of the Iranian National Mathematical Olympiad (2009), an M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Sharif University of Technology. Over a 12-year teaching career at Iran's National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET), the institution that produces nearly all of Iran's IMO contestants, he trained 70+ students to gold medals at the Iranian National Olympiad and mentored 30+ students who went on to win medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) itself. Few coaches anywhere can match this record. It is the kind of pipeline that turns serious students into national team contenders, and it is now operating in Vancouver.

His competition trajectory came through the same Iranian olympiad system that has ranked consistently among the top 10–15 countries at IMO for three decades. He served on the committee of the Iran National Math Olympiad in 2011 and 2019, contributing to exam design and selection standards at the national level, and on the organization team of the International Iranian Geometry Olympiad (IGO) in 2017 and 2018. In 2018 he delivered mathematics instruction by national broadcast to students in underserved regions of Iran.

What I teach, and how

Competition mathematics rewards the student who can sit with a single problem for hours, generate multiple lines of attack, and write rigorous proofs under time pressure. Amir's signature work is in geometry, both Euclidean and transformational, where he has built a teaching approach centered on what he calls "function-based simplification": training students to reframe complex configurations through structural transformations rather than brute computation. He presented this approach at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle in January 2025 in the AMS Contributed Paper Session on Mathematics Education.

Across geometry, number theory, combinatorics, and algebra he teaches the canonical olympiad problem corpus with an emphasis on conceptual clarity, the disposition of the mathematician, and rapid skill compounding. The depth of his teaching record, measurable in actual IMO medals, is what gives parents confidence that the training pipeline at Peroz is not improvisation but proven infrastructure.