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The following is a list of notable Iranian scholars, scientists and engineers around the world from the
contemporary period. For pre-modern era, see
List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars . For mathematicians, see
List of Iranian mathematicians .
Behnaam Aazhang , professor of engineering,
Rice University
Akbar Adibi , electronic engineer, VLSI researcher, professor of engineering,
Amirkabir University of Technology
[1]
Majid Adibzadeh , scholar and Political scientist
Haleh Afshar , academic and peer,
University of York
[2]
Masoud Alimohammadi , assassinated quantum field theorist and elementary-particle physicist
Abbas Amanat , professor of history and international studies at Yale University
[3]
Shahram Amiri
Mahyar Amouzegar , Operations Researcher, President of
New Mexico Tech , author
Anousheh Ansari , the world's first female
space tourist , co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems, Inc., co-founder and former CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI)
Farhad Ardalan , physicist,
IPM
Nima Arkani-Hamed , professor,
Institute for Advanced Study
Nasser Ashgriz , professor of mechanical and industrial engineering,
University of Toronto
[4]
Touraj Atabaki , professor of social history of the Middle East and Central Asia, Department of History,
University of Amsterdam
[5]
Reza Amrollahi , Physicist and the former president of the
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
Mehdi Bahadori , professor of mechanical engineering
Hossein Baharvand , professor of stem cell and developmental biology, and director of Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology
Shaul Bakhash , historian,
George Mason University
Asef Bayat , professor of sociology and Middle East Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[6]
Nariman Behravesh , chief economist and executive vice president,
Global Insight
[7]
Mahmoud Behzad , pioneer Iranian biologist
Mina Bissell , director of
UC Berkeley Life Sciences Division
[8]
Mohammad Reza Hafeznia , professor,
University of Tehran
Ali Hajimiri ,
Caltech , professor of electrical engineering, co-founder of Axiom Microdevices Inc.
[15]
Majid Hassanizadeh , professor of hydrogeology; expertise: theories of porous media (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
[16]
Babak Hassibi , professor of electrical engineering,
Caltech
[17]
Mahmoud Hessaby , physicist, father of modern physics in Iran
Payam Heydari , professor of electrical engineering and computer science,
University of California, Irvine
[18]
Eric Hooglund , professor of political science
Hossein Hassani , World Top 1% Scientists,
IIASA
Reza Iravani , professor and the L. Lau Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Toronto
Naser Kamalian , medical scholar and the father of modern neuropathology in Iran
Mehran Kardar , physicist,
MIT
[20]
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak , founding director of Center for Persian Studies,
University of Maryland
[21]
Homayoon Kazerooni , professor of
mechanical engineering at the
University of California, Berkeley ,
[22] co-founder and Chief Scientist of
Berkeley Bionics ,
[23] inventor of the
HULC
Shaygan Kheradpir , chief operating officer,
Barclays
Omid Kordestani , senior vice president of worldwide sales and field operations,
Google
[24]
Farinaz Koushanfar , Henry Booker Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego (UCSD); Director of the Center for Machine Intelligence and Security (MICS) at UCSD
Esfandiar Maasoumi , Fellow of the
Royal Statistical Society ,
Southern Methodist University
[26]
Iraj Malekpour , professor of space physics
Alireza Mashaghi , professor of systems biomedicine and physics,
Leiden University and
Harvard University
Maryam Mirzakhani , first woman ever to win the fields medal
Abbas Milani , director of Iranian Studies Program,
Stanford University
Farzaneh Milani , director of studies in women and gender,
University of Virginia
Maryam Mirzakhani , mathematician and a professor of mathematics at
Stanford University , and first woman to be awarded the
Fields Medal
Minoo Mohraz , physician, researcher, infectious diseases specialist, AIDS specialist, professor at the
Tehran University of Medical Sciences .
Parviz Moin , Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University
[27]
Ali Montazeri , public health scientist at the Health Metrics Research Center of the Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research
[28]
Mohsen Mostafavi , dean of
Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
[29]
Fathollah Moztarzadeh , Biomedical Engineering,
Order of Research , professor at
Amirkabir University of Technology .
Hamid Mowlana , director of the Division of International Communication at
American University in
Washington D.C. , and former president of the
International Association for Media and Communication Research
[30]
Firouz Naderi , associate director, Project Formulation and Strategy,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory ,
NASA
Hossein Nasr , philosopher,
George Washington University
Farzad Nazem , former chief technical officer and executive vice president,
Yahoo!
[31]
Camran Nezhat , director of Stanford Endoscopy Center for Training & Technology,
Stanford University
[32]
Behrouz Nikbin , immunologist and biomedical scientist
Mehrdad Nikoonahad , vice president of business development, PDF Solutions, Inc.
[33]
Ali R. Rabi , founding chair of the Middle East Citizens Assembly, University of Maryland
Yahya Rahmat-Samii , professor of electromagnetics at UCLA
Behzad Razavi , director, Communication Circuits Laboratory, UCLA
Sohrab Rohani , chair, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Western Ontario
[38]
Mostafa Ronaghi , chief technology officer and senior vice president of Illumina
Pardis Sabeti , geneticist, assistant professor, Center for Systems Biology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Hossein Sadri , dean, associate professor of architectural theory,
Girne American University
Reihaneh Safavi-Naini , cryptographer, professor in School of Computer Science,
University of Wollongong
Muhammad Sahimi , chair of Chemical Engineering Department,
University of Southern California
[39]
Farrokh Saidi , medical professor and administrator, permanent member of Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences
Jawad Salehi , inventor of optical code division multiple access, professor of electrical engineering at Sharif University of Technology
Majid Samii , neurosurgeon and scientist, president of the International Society for Neurosurgery
Mohammad-Nabi Sarbolouki , professor of macromolecular physical chemistry,
Tehran University
Cyrus Shahabi , chair of the Computer Science Department,
University of Southern California
[40]
Alireza Shapour Shahbazi , lecturer in Achaemenid archeology and Iranology at Harvard University; full professor of history in Eastern Oregon University,
Eastern Oregon University
[41]
Mohammad Shahidehpour , former dean of the Graduate College and Associate VP for Research,
Illinois Institute of Technology
[42]
Freidoon Shahidi , university research professor,
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Manuchehr Shahrokhi , Craig Fellow/professor, editor of the
Global Finance Journal ,
California State University, Fresno
Vahid Shams Kolahi , solid-state physicist with contribution to
CIGS and
CdTe
solar cells
Amir Ali Sheibany , professor of geology,
University of Tehran ; founder and chairman of the National Iranian Steel Corporation (ZobAhan AryaMehr)
Saeed Shirkavand , former vice minister in
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance (Iran) , assistant professor in management faculty of
University of Tehran
[43]
Hamid Shirvani , president and professor of art and architecture, Briar Cliff University
Amin Shokrollahi , professor of I&C faculty and the head of ALGO lab,
EPFL , Switzerland
[44]
Gholam Reza Sinambari , chair of Department of Environmental Engineering,
Fachhochschule Bingen
Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh , senior scientist,
Henry Ford Health System ; professor of electrical and computer engineering,
University of Tehran
Saba Soomekh , professor of religious studies and Middle Eastern history at
UCLA , and author of books and articles on contemporary and historical
Iranian Jewish culture
Abdolkarim Soroush , philosopher
Kamran Talattof , professor,
University of Arizona
Vahid Tarokh , professor,
Harvard University
Lotfi A. Zadeh , creator of
fuzzy logic and
fuzzy set ,
UC Berkeley
Mehdi Zakerian , visiting professor,
Penn Law ,
University of Pennsylvania , president of Iranian International Studies Association (IISA), editor-in-chief of International Studies Journal
Esmail Zanjani , department chair of Department of Animal Biotechnology at
University of Nevada, Reno
[47]
Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob , scholar of Iranian literature, history of literature, Persian culture and history, professor at
Tehran University
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"Home Page for Mehdi Golshani" . www.sharif.ac.ir. Retrieved 2017-10-03 .
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