Modern Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineers

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The following is a non-exhaustive list of highly-respected Iranian scholars, scientists and engineers around the world from the modern era. The list is continually subject to change.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] A

• Abdollah Abtahi, Ph.D. Laser Physics, Radiation Physics, Sr. scientist and Systems Architect, NASA Earth Observing System, Raytheon Company, USA.
• Faraj Aalaei, Centillium communications, CEO & Co-Founder, former member of the American Iranian Council's board of directors.^[1]
• Bizhan Aarabi, Director of Neurotrauma. University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine.^[2]
• Behnaam Aazhang of Rice University. J.S. Abercrombie Professor and Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of Center for Multimedia Communications of Rice University.^[3]
• Reza Abbaschian, Distinguished Professor of Materials Science, President of ASM International; the largest materials society in USA. Dean of Bourns College of Engineering [University of California, Riverside], Chairman of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Florida (1986-2002). UF Top Researcher or Research Achievements Awards for 8 consecutive years. Vladimir A. Grodsky Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida.^[4]
• Morteza Abbaszadegan, Director of National Science Foundation Water Quality Center at Arizona State University.
• Reza Abhari, Head of Institute for Energy Technologies at ETH as well as the Director of the Center of Energy Conversion, a multi-disciplinary joint industry-university research center in Switzerland.^[5]
• Omid Abri, Director of Center for Non-invasive Medicine, Germany.^[6]
• Fariba Adelkhah, Director of Research at Centre for International Studies and Research, France.^[7]
• Hojjat Adeli, Lichtenstein Professor in Infrastructure Engineering The Ohio State University, USA.^[8]
• Khosrow Adeli, Head and Professor of Clinical BiochemistryThe University of Toronto, Canada.^[9]
• Akbar Adibi, Professor of Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, a Senior IEEE member and considered by many as Iran's Father of Electronics and VLSI.^[10]
• Hossein Adibi, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.^[11]
• Haleh Afshar, of The University of York. Honorary President of the United Nation Association's International Services.^[12]
• Ehsan Afshari, Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell University.^[13]
• Peyman Aghssa, Senior Safety Engineer at Ford Motor Company.^[14]
• Pirooz Aghssa, Professor of Theater at Eastern Michigan University.^[15]
• Nasrollah Ahadiat, Professor, scholar, and former Chair of Accounting Department, California State Polytechnic University.^[16]
• Ali Aivani, Managing Director of Alitronika Digital Video Systems, The Netherlands.^[17]
• Majid Ahmadi, of The University of Windsor. Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition and Computer in Electrical Engineering Journal.^[18]
• Reza Ahy, Aperto, President & CEO.^[19]
• Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki, Professor and Chairman, Department of Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology.^[20]
• Mohammad Ala, California State University, Los Angeles Outstanding Professor, Director of CSU-LA Productivity Center.^[21]
• G. Hossein Almassi, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Professor of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin.^[22]
• Amin Amini, Director, CVIA Lab, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis.^[23]
• Mehdi Aminrazavi, Chair and Professor of Philosophy and Religion, University of Mary Washington.^[24]
• Samim Anghaie, Director of the Innovative Nuclear Space Power and Propulsion Institute (INSPI).^[25]
• Anousheh Ansari, The world's first female space tourist.Co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems, Inc. Former co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI)
• Humayun Ansari, Director of the Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies, Royal Holloway University of London.^[26]
• Parviz Ansari, Chair of Physics Department, Seton Hall University.^[27]
• Amir Anvar, Oil/Gas Consultant, Accenture.
• Mehran Anvari of McMaster University: Chief Scientific Officer for the NEEMO 10 mission, a joint project between the Centre for Minimal Access Surgery (which he directs), NASA and the Canadian Space Agency.^[28][29]
• Payman Arabshahi, University of Washington, formerly with NASA JPL and Caltech.^[30]
• Hesameddin Arfaei, senior fellow of the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics.^[31]
• Jafar Arkani-Hamed of McGill University. Director of Research, NASA group Achievement Award, 1985.^[32][33][34]
• Nima Arkani-Hamed, physicist, Harvard University.
• Farhad Ardalan, physicist, IPM.
• Mehdi Asali, Economist, Energy Analyst in OPEC, Vienna, Austria
• Nasser Ashgriz, of The University of Toronto.^[35]
• Mohammad Ashrafzadeh, Director Emeritus, Boston University Medical Center.^[36]
• Abolhasan Astaneh, of UC Berkeley.^[37][38] He testified before the Committee on Science of the United States House of Representatives.^[39]
• Touraj Atabaki, Holds the endowed chair of 'Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia' at the Department of History, University of Amsterdam.^[40]
• Shapour Azarm of the University of Maryland, College Park. Westinghouse Professorship (1989); Procter & Gamble Paper Awards (1989, 1991); Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design; Associate Editor, Mechanics-Based Design of Structures and Machines; Chair of the ASME Design Automation Committee (1996-1997).^[41]
• Mehdi Arzhangi, Expert of strategic planning, Strategic Planning Dep. of Iran Khodro CO., IRAN.
• Paeiz Azmi, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, IRAN.

[edit] B

• Mohammad Bannayan, Environmental modeling at University of Georgia
• Shaul Bakhash, prominent historian at George Mason University
• Amir Banihashemi of Carleton University, Editor of Coding and Commun. for IEEE Trans. on Communications.^[42]
• Ali Banuazizi of Boston College. Co-director, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program at BC, Research Fellow at Center for International Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President-Elect of The Middle East Studies Association of North America, Advisory Editor of International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society.^[43]
• Amir Barzin of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead Scholar and Masters Candidate at University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
• Farokh Bastani, Director, Embedded Software Center, University of Texas at Dallas.^[44]
• Khosrow Behbehani, Director of Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington.^[45]
• Sohrab Behdad Professor of Economics at Denison University.^[46]
• Kamran Behnia, Directeur de recherche au CNRS UPR5, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles.^[47]
• Nariman Behravesh, Chief Economist and Executive Vice President for Global Insight. Designated #1 in USA Today's 2004 ranking of top economic forecasters.^[48]
• Mina Bissel, Director of UC Berkeley Life Sciences Division.^[49]
• Azadeh Bojmehrani, Electronic-Computer Biomedical Engineer, ENSEA [149].École nationale supérieure de l'électronique et de ses applications,Lunar Radar Project-Télédetection [150].Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7,Iranian Inventor [151] of Genetic Changement(Mutation) of Alison,working with Mr.Hossein Khademian .
• Ali Bojmehrani,Maintenance Engineer,Professor of IUP Paris 12 [152],Writer of A tool for Building Expert Systems.[153]
• Hooshang Bolooki, Director, Adult Cardiac Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine.^[50]

[edit] C

• Houchang Chehabi, Woodrow Wilson Fellow of Boston University.^[51]

[edit] D

• Mohammad Dadashzadeh, Director of Applied Technology in Business (ATiB) Program at Oakland University.^[52]
• Raymond Damadian, Armenian inventor of the MRI.
• Ali Danesh, Director of Research at The Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University.^[53]
• Hossain Danesh, founder and president of the International Education for Peace Institute and the first president of Landegg International University. He lectures widely on conflict resolution and psychological topics.^[54]
• Hashem Dezhbakhsh, Interim Chair, Department of Economics, Emory University.^[55]
• Scharhram Doustdar, Head of VitaLab research institute (Vienna internet technologies advanced research lab) Technical University Vienna.^[56]
• Hadi Dowlatabadi, Canada Research Chair and Professor, University of British Columbia. [154]
• Mohammad Durali, Professor, Sharif University of Technology.^[57]

[edit] E

• Fereshteh Ebrahimi, Professor of Materials Science at University of Florida.^[58]
• Abbas Edalat, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, Head of theory section at Imperial College London.^[59]
• Ali Eftekhari, Professor of Chemistry, Director of Avicenna Institute of Technology, Berkeley.
• Mory Ejabat, Chairman, Co-founder of Zhone Technologoies.^[60]
• Kamran Elahian, Hi-Tech entrepreneur.^[61]
• Behdad Esfahbod, Director, GNOME Foundation.
• Iraj Eshraghi, Director of the Petroleum Engineering Program in Chemical Engineering Department, University of Southern California.^[62]
• Ali Eskandarian, Associate Dean of the College of Professional Studies at George Washington University.^[63]
• Hossein Eslambolchi, AT&T's Chief Technology Officer and the President of Bell Labs.^[64]
• Hossein Esteky, Director, School of cognitive sciences IPM, professor at Shahid Beheshti Medical University.

[edit] F

• Amir Faghri, Dean of the School of Engineering and United Technologies Chair Professor in Thermal-Fluids Engineering, University of Connecticut.^[65]
• Fereydoon Family, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Physics, Emory University.^[66]
• Farr Farhan, Movaz Networks, Chief Development Officer.^[67]
• Amir Farmanesh, Ph.D. in Public policy, School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, College Park.
• Nariman Farvardin, Provost, University of Maryland, College Park.^[68]
• Feyzi Fatehi, Endeavors Technology, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations.^[69]
• Ali Fatemi, Director, Fatigue and Fracture Research Laboratory, Mechanical, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Department, University of Toledo.^[70]
• Ali Fatemi (France), Dean of Graduate School of Business, American University of Paris.^[71]
• Yahya Fathi, Co-Director of Operations Research Program at North Carolina State University.^[72]
• Abdollah Ferdowsi, Distinguished Professor, College of Business, Ferris State University.^[73]
• Fereidun Fesharaki, former President of the International Association for Energy Economics, Editorial board member of six International Technical Journals, Member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, Member of the Advisory Board of Nippon Mitsubishi Oil Company of Japan, Advisory Board member of the Far East Oil Price Index based in Singapore, member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. Senior Fellow of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics for distinguished service in the field of energy economics.^[74]
• Abbas Firoozabadi, Winner of 2002 Anthony Lucas Gold Medal.^[75] He is professor of Reservoir Engineering at Yale University and Reservoir Research Institute.
• Firoozabdi, Mohammad, Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering (Biomedical Engineering), Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.^[76]
• Shaahin Filizadeh, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Manitoba.

[edit] G

• Firouz gahvari, Professor, Director of MSPE program of Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Jamshid Ghaboussi, Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.^[77]
• Akbar Ghahary, CEO and Chairman, Safas Corporation.^[78]
• Mohammed Ghanbari, of University of Essex. Former Associate Editor to IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.^[79]
• Morteza Gharib, of California Institute of Technology. Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering.^[80]
• Farzad Ghazvinian, Teledesic Network, CTO & Senior Vice President.^[81]
• Peyman Givi, Distinguished professor at SUNY Buffalo, and William Kepler Whiteford Professor and Director of Laboratory for Computational Transport Phenomena, Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Pittsburgh.^[82]
• Farid Golnaraghi, Research Chair at Mechatronic and Smart Material Systems, University of Waterloo.^[83]
• Vartan Gregorian, President of The Carnegie Corporation of New York.^[84]
• Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany,Distinguished Professor of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology Science and Earthquake Risk Management, Founding President of IIEES.
• Zoubin Ghahramani,Professor of Information Engineering Department of Engineering University of Cambridge.^[85]
• Cyrus Golkar,Sun Micro Systems Inc. senior information technology professional.^[86]

[edit] H

• Hamid R.Yaghoubi, Chief Technical Officer, Omidan Internet Connection Provider .^[87]
• Ali Haghani, Chair, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park.^[88]
• Alireza Haghighat, Chair, Nuclear Engineering Department, University of Florida, Chair, University of Florida Transport Theory Group (UFTTG).^[89][90]
• Alireza Haghighi, Medical Doctor and Medical Genetics Researcher at University of Oxford, Co-founder and Trustee, Network of Iranians for Knowledge and Innovation.^[91][92]
• Nasser G Haghighat, Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center, Research Scientist, Senior Investigator.
• Ross Haghighat, Triton Systems, Founder, Chairman and CEO.^[93]
• Ali Hajimiri, of Caltech. Distinguished scientist, and co-founder of Axiom Microdevices Inc.^[94]
• Feridun Hamdullahpur, Vice President, Carleton University. Dr. Hamdullahpur is half Iranian, Half Turk (From Turkey).^[95]
• Houchang Hassan-Yari, Head of Politics and Economics Department, Royal Military College of Canada.^[96]
• Babak Hassibi, Professor of electrical engineering at Caltech.^[97]
• Samad Hayati, NASA project manager.^[98]
• Mohammad Heydari-Malayeri of the NASA Hubble Heritage Project.^[99]
• Samad Hedayat, Distinguished Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago.^[100]
• Shahin Hedayat, Centillium Communications, President & Co-Founder.^[101]
• Mahmoud Hessabi, physicist. Father of Modern Physics in Iran (Persia).
• Hossain Heydari, Director, Information Security Program at James Madison University.^[102]
• Payam Heydari, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at UC Irvine.^[103]
• Behrouz Homayoun Far, Director of International Institute for Agent-Based Software System Research (IIASR), University of Calgary.^[104]
• Dr. A. Hoodashtian, Director of the Montreal International School of Management, based in Montreal, Canada.^[105]
• Mohammad H. Hosni, Department Head and the Frankenhoff Chair in Engineering, Kansas State University.^[106][107]
• Ahmad Hosseini, Dean, School of Business and Economics, Sonoma State University.^[108]
• Hossein Hosseini, Co-Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.^[109]
• Amir H. Hoveyda, Joseph T. and Patricia Vanderslice Millennium Professor of Chemistry

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• Kaveh Hushyar, Vice President, AT&T Network Planning & Engineering.^[110]
• Hashem Pesaran, Professor of Economics and Fellow of Trinity College

[edit] I

• Roozbeh Izadi-Zamanabadi, Manager at Aalborg University Space Center, Denmark.^[111]
• 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 at the University of Toronto.

[edit] J

• Parviz Jabehdar, considered by many as Iran's Father of Electrical Engineering.^{[citation needed]} Dean of ECE Department of University of Tehran and first winner of Eternal Figure (Chehreh ye Mandegar) Award from ECE Department of University of Tehran.^[112]
• Hamid Jafarkhani of UC Irvine.
• Ali Jafari, Director, CyberLab, Purdue University.^[113]
• Bahram Jalali of UCLA, Chair of Optoelectronic Circuits and Systems Laboratory, Director of the DARPA Consortium for Optical A/D System Technology, and former Chair of the Photonic and Optoelectronics department at UCLA's EE Department.^[114]
• Mir Abbas Jalali of Sharif University of Technology.^[115]
• Nader Jalili, Clemson University, Proposal Reviewer for The National Science Foundation, U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF), the Science Center Programs of the U.S. Department of State, and the Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation. European Commission Award for Vibration Measurements by Laser Techniques, Ancona, Italy, 2004.^[116]
• Abbas Jamalipour, Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Sydney and IEEE Fellow. ^[117]
• Mo Jamshidi, NASA senior scientist.^[118]
• Yusef Javadi, Sprint Corporation. President, Sprint International.^[119]
• Ali Javan, physicist and inventor of the Gas Laser.
• Seyed Gholamreza Jalali Naini, President of the Iranian Ergonomics Society, Chairman of the Iranian Management Association and former UN official and ILO Chief Technical Advisor for SADC.
• Kamaloddin Jenab, pioneering physicist

[edit] K

• Mojtaba Kahrizi, Director, Graduate Program (M.Eng) & Director Professional Development Programs, Concordia University.^[120]
• Iraj Kalantari, Chair, department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University.^[121]
• Mariam Kamkar, Head of the Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden.^[122]
• Mohammad Kamkar, First Iranian Nuclear Medicine physician, specialized in Internal medicine, Cardiology and Nuclear Medicine from top American Universities. , Shiraz University, Shiraz.
• Nasser Kanani, Head of Materials Science Department, Technical University of Berlin.^[123]
• Mehran Kardar, physicist, MIT.^[124]
• Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Founding Director of Center for Persian Studies, University of Maryland.^[125]
• Nasser Kehtarnavaz, Professor in Electrical Engineering and director of Image Processing Journal, University of Texas at Dallas, Erik Jansson College.
• Mostafa Kaveh, Department Head, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Minnesota.
• Mohsen Kavehrad, W. L. Weiss (AMERITECH) Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University.^[126]
• Massoud Kaviany, Distinguished lecturer, University of Michigan.^[127]
• Mohammad A. Kazemi, Associate Chairperson of Mathematics Department, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.^[128]
• Ella Kazerooni, Professor and Director of the Thoracic Radiology Division, University of Michigan.^[129]
• Bijan Kermani, Director of KeyTech & a Visiting Professor and Oil & Gas Business Development Manager at UCL, University College London.^[130]
• M. A. Ketabchi, CEO, President and Chairman, Savvion.^[131]
• Reza M. Khanbilvardi, Director of ICERD, The City College of New York.^[132]
• Amir K. Khandani, NSERC-Nortel Networks Research Chair, and Director of Coding and Signal Transmission Laboratory, University of Waterloo.^[133]
• Shaygan Kheradpir, Chief Information Officer, Verizon Communications.^[134]
• Shahram Khorshidi,M.D, Family Medicine,Natividad Medical Center, University of California @ San Francisco School of Medicine(UCSF).
• Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Field Operations at Google.^[135]
• Kouroche Kian, Sr. Research Scientist Avery Dennison.^[136]

Professor Nazilla Khanlou is the faculty representative for Nursing on the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies program committee. She teaches NUR 1068H—Youth and Mental Health Promotion (2002-2003) for the Collaborative Program. Interests concern mental health promotion among youth who live within multicultural contexts; self-esteem and cultural identity development of youth in inter-cultural and cross-cultural contexts and the influence of gender and migration status; and the application of participatory action frameworks and multi-method data gathering in community-based research with immigrant and Canadian-born youth. Currently, Professor Khanlou is co-investigator of a participatory action research study entitled "Revisiting 'personal is political': Immigrant women's health promotion"(Gastaldo, Khanlou, Massaquoi, & Curling, 2002-2004, funded by CIHR). She is also the Health Domain Leader of the Centre of Excellence for Research onImmigration and Settlement (CERIS) in Toronto. Most recently, Professor Khanlou received funding from SSHRC to be principalinvestigator of the "Immigrant Youth and Cultural Identity in a GlobalContext" study (Khanlou, et al 2003-2006).

[edit] M

• Hossein Madani Ghomi physicist of Karaj Azad University[156]
• Ali Esfandiar Rakhshani Moghadam physicist of Kuwait University[157]
• Esfandiar Maasoumi of Southern Methodist University. Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.[158]
• Ali Madanipour, of The University of Newcastle upon Tyne. [159]
• Brom Mahbod, Oracle Corporation, VP of e-Services Platform.[160]
• Mohammad Mahdian, Ph. D. and researcher at Microsoft Research[161]
• Yusuf "Yoshi" Maisami Systems Engineer and Cofounder of CanYouconnect.com.
• Farrokh B. Malihi, Director, Fargol Research Group.[162]
• Pejman Makhfi, Knowledge Modeling scientist, makhfi.com.[163], IEEE Neural Network Society.
• David Malek-Yonan, Engineer
• G.Ali Mansoori, Professor of BioEngineering, Chemical Engineering & Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago. [164]
• Michael Mansouri, Probix, Inc. President & CEO.[165]
• Farzad Mashayek, Director of Graduate Studies, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago. [166]
• Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. [167]
• Morteza Monte Mehrabadi, Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tulane University.[168]
• Mohsen Meydani, Director, Vascular Biology Laboratory, and Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA Senior Scientist at Tufts University. [169]
• Simin Nikbin Meydani, Senior Scientist and Director at Tufts University. [170]
• Abbas Milani, Director of Iranian Studies Program, Stanford University.
• Farzaneh Milani, Director of Studies in Women and Gender, University of Virginia.
• Farhad Mirghomizadeh, President and CEO NOVOGENOMICS, Staff scientist at Borstel research center, [171], Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Association, Germany
• Majid Mirmehdi, of The University of Bristol. Associate Editor of Pattern Aanalysis and Applications Journal.[172]
• Amir Mirmiran, Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University.[173]
• Siamak Mirmiran, President & CEO, Ledgers Ottawa, [174]
• Bahman Mirshab, Dean, University of Detroit Mercy. [175]
• Saed Mirzadeh, Senior Research & Development Staff, Nuclear Medicine Program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. [176]
• Maryam Mirzakhani, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University
• Manoo Missaghi, Founder and CEO, WEBVIEWS, Inc. [177].
• Mohsen Moazami, VP of Internet Business Solutions Group Cisco Systems.[178]
• Barzin Mobasher of Arizona State University. [179]
• Shahriar Mobashery of The University of Notre Dame. Distinguished Professor. [180]
• Nader Modanlo, Chairman of Final Analysis Communication Services, Inc.[181]
• Mohammad Modarres of the University of Maryland, College Park. Distinguished Scholar Award, 1995. Fellow, American Nuclear Society. [182][183]
• Mahta Moghaddam of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Associate Professor. Senior Member, IEEE. [184]
• Haideh Moghissi, Professor, School of Social Sciences, Atkinson Faculty, York University, Canada. [185]
• Parviz Moin, Director and Senior Scientist, Stanford University. [186]
• Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Associate Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis. [187]
• Majid Molki of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Associate Editor of Heat Transfer Engineering. [188]
• Zab Mosenifar, Medical Director, Cedars-Sinai Center for Chest Diseases. [189]
• Ali Mosleh, Program Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Human Factors Division, American Nuclear Society. Also Co-Director, Center for Technology Risk Studies at Clark School of Engineering, and Director of the X-Ware Systems Reliability Analysis Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park.[190][191]
• 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. ^[137]

[edit] N

• Firouz Naderi, NASA director of Mars Program.
• Behzad Nadji, Vice President, AT&T Labs Research. [192]
• David Naffis, Systems Engineer and Cofounder of CanYouConnect.com
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr, philosopher, George Washington University.
• Ali Nasle, PE, Founder and CEO of EDSA Micro Corporation [193]
• Farzad Nazem, Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President, at Yahoo. [194]
• Mehrdad Negahban, Director of Graduate Program, Department of Engineering Mechanics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. [195]
• Sia Nemat-Nasser, Director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials, UCSD. [196]
• Hamid Nayeb Hashemi,F.Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Northeastern University. [197]
• Pardis Adam Nemati, E.I.T., Electrical Engineer, Founder and CEO of Texas Media Group.
• Camran Nezhat, Director, Stanford Endoscopy Center for Training & Technology, Stanford University. [198]
• Ali Niknejad of UC Berkeley, Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Co-Director of BSIM Project. [199][200]
• Mehrdad Nikoonahad, Vice-president, Business Development, PDF Solutions, Inc. [201]
• Hamid Noori, Chair professor for Enterprise Integration and Technology Management, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, and Chair Professor of Management of Technology at Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.[202]

[edit] O

• Michael Ohadi of the University of Maryland, College Park, Technical Associate Editor, Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer; Technical Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Manufacturing and Science Engineering; Advisory Editorial Board Member, Scientia, International Journal of Science and Technology. [203]
• Pierre Omidyar, Founder of e-Bay. [204]
• Rasoul Oskouy, co-founder of Juniper Networks

[edit] P

• Arman Pahlavan, Co-chairman, Manatt's Venture Capital. [205]
• Kaveh Pahlavan, Professor and Director of CWINS, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. [206]
• Pirouz Pirouz, Distinguished Professor of Materials Science, Case Western University, USA.
• Masood Parang, Associate Dean, University of Tennessee.[207]
• Iraj Parchamazad, Chair of Chemistry Department, University of La Verne. [208]
• Hassan Parsa, Founder, Lucent Venture Partners LLC. [209]
• Kiumars Parvin, Chair, Dept of Physics, San Jose State University.[210]
• Massoud Pedram, Professor and Director of SPORT Lab, University of Southern California. [211]
• Peyman Askari Nejad, CEO of PGB Engineers, Sharif University of Technology. [212]
• Hashem Pesaran, of Cambridge University. Fellow of Trinity College, Fellow of The British Academy, former Director of the Applied Econometrics Program at UCLA, founding editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics. [213] [214]
• Nasser Peyghambarian, Chair of Photonics and Lasers program, Director of Optical Circuitry Cooperative, Co-director of Center for Advanced Multifunctional Nonlinear Optical Polymers and Molecular Assemblies, Co-director of Center for Optoelectronic Devices, Inter-connects, and Packaging. University of Arizona. [215]
• Savalan Pourakbar, International Head Engineer, Hydraulic Modeler,

[edit] R

• Ali R. Rabi, Founding Chair of the Middle East Citizens Assembly (MECA), University of Maryland.
• Farshad Rafii, Founding Director of the Center for Technology and Enterprise at Babson College.[216]
• Hashem Rafii Tabar, Head, School of Nano-Sciences at IPM.[217]
• Khosrow Rafiy, Founder and Director of the giant multimedia company Dubidot, Berlin, Germany. [218]
• Mansour Rahimi, Director of Human Factors Laboratory, AT&T Fellow in Industrial Ecology, Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California
• Saeid Rahimi, Dean, School of Science and Technology, Sonoma State University [219]
• Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Former Chair, Electrical Engineering Department at the UCLA. [220]
• Ehsan Rahmati,young inventor of modern automation controllers .
• Farzad Rahnema, Associate Chair of The Woodruff School, and Chair of Nuclear Engineering Program at Georgia Institute of Technology. [221]
• Saeed Rahnema, Professor, Political science, Atkinson Faculty, and Faculty of Arts, School of Social Sciences, School of Public Policy and Administration, York University, Canada. [222]
• Asghar Rastegar, Associate Chairman for Academic Affairs, Yale University School of Medicine. [223]
• Bahram Ravani, Interim Chair of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and former Chair of the Department Mechanical Engineering, UC Davis. [224]
• Behzad Razavi, Director, Communications Circuits Laboratory, UCLA.[225]
• Bahman Rezaie, Chairman, Engineering Dept of St. Mary's University. [226]
• Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley.
• Behrooz Rezvani, Founder and CTO, Ikanos. [227]
• Sohrab Rohani Chair, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, The University of Western Ontario.[228]
• Mostafa Ronaghi department of Molecular Biology,university of stanford
• Amir Rostami, Chairman, Department of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University.[229][230]
• Amin Rostami-Hodjegan, Reader in Clinical Pharmacokinetics & Drug Metabolism and Director of Scientific Development, Simcyp Limited, The University of Sheffield.[231], Simcyp Limited[ http://www.simcyp.com/AboutUs/TheSimcypTeam]

[edit] S

• Bijan Saadatmandian, former director of International Student and Scholar Services at James Madison University. [232]
• Ali M. Sadegh, Professor and Director of Center for Adv. Eng. Design and Development, The City University of New York, Fellow of ASME and SME,[233].
• Nader Sadegh of Georgia Tech, Associate Editor of Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control. [234]
• Amir Sadeghi, Chief of Medical Physics Dept at The Texas Cancer Clinic, and Professor of Radiological Sciences at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. [235]
• Mansour Safai, Former Vice President of The Language and Internet Tools Division, CEO of M7, Father of Visual Cafe first intigrated Java development tools.
• Bijan Safai, Chairman, Department of Dermatology, New York Medical College.[236]
• Safieddin Safavi-Naeini, Professor, University of Waterloo. [237]
• Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, Cryptographer, Professor in School of Computer Science, University of Wollongong
• Muhammad Sahimi, Chairman, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Southern California. [238]
• Farrokh Saidi, Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World[239], Permanent Member of Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences [240], Emeritus Professor and Chief of Surgery, Shahid Beheshti University School of Medicine [241], former Dean of School of Medicine, Pahlavi University, Shiraz, Iran Shiraz University of Medical Sciences [242]
• Hossein Saiedian, Professor/Associate Chair, University of Kansas. [243]
• Mehrdad Saif, Director, School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University. [244]
• Kavé Salamatian, Associate Professor at Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, France University Pierre et Marie Curie. [245]
• Jawad A. Salehi, Inventor of Optical Code-Division Multiple Access Communication Systems, Professor of Sharif University of Technology. [246]
• Esmail Salehi-Sangari, Chair Professor, Head of Industrial Marketing and e-Commerce Research Group Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. [247]
• Faramarz F. Samavati, Ph. D., Associate Professor Computer Sciences Department University of Calgary.[248]
• Kourosh Salami, UniDiCom CEO, Founder.[249]
• Ehsan Samei, Director of Graduate Program, Medical Physics Department, Duke University.[250]
• Majid Samii, president of the world federation of neurosurgical societies. [251]
• Ahmad Samie-Shooshtari, CEO, Founder of Property Center, Inc., Northrop University. [252]
• Nader Saniei, Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. [253]
• Ali Sarabi, Oresis Communications, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO. [254]
• Majid Sarrafzadeh, Director of Embedded and Reconfigurable Systems Lab at UCLA. [255]
• Lotfollah Shafai, Distinguished Professor, Canada Research Chair in Applied Electromagnetics, University of Manitoba. [256]
• Homa Shabahang, Associate Vice President for Regional Campuses, University of La Verne. [257]
• Hamed Shahbazi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of infotouch Inc. [258]
• Mohammad Shahidehpour, Former Dean of the Graduate College and Associate VP for Research at Illinois Institute of Technology. [259]
• Freydoon Shahidi, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Purdue University
• Ramin Shahidi, Cbyon, Inc. Founder and CTO.[260]
• Ghavam G. Shahidi, Director of silicon science for IBM Research.[261]
• Mohsen Shahinpoor of the School of Medicine at the University of New Mexico. Chief Scientist and Director of Biomedical Engineering Products at Environmental Robots Incorporated, Director of the World's first Artificial Muscles Research Institute (AMRI), and Director of Spine Biomechatronics Laboratory, at The School of Medicine. [262][263][264]
• Shahriar Shahriari, Chair, department of Mathematics, Pomona College. [265]
• Manuchehr Shahrokhi, Craig Fellow/Professor & Editor, Global Finance Journal [266]California State University, Fresno. and Executive Director, Global Finance Association -Conference [267]
• Dr. Abdolrahman Shams Nateri, Senior Research Scientist with publications in Nature and Science Journals ,Cancer Research UK.[268]
• Dr. Asghar Shams, Senior researcher, petroleum engineering, Heriot watt Institute of petroleum engineering, UK
• Yusef Shayan, Associate Chair, EEC Department, Concordia University. [269]
• Amin Shokrollahi, Professor of I&C faculty and the head of ALGO lab, EPFL, Switzerland. [270]
• Arman Shokrollahi, Researcher at Institute for Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, and Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tehran and the main member of the Logic Group at Leeds University. [271]
• Ali Shokoufandeh, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Associate Department Head, and co-director of VisCog lab, Drexel University, USA. [272]
• Nader Shooshtari, Chair, Department of Management & Marketing, University of Montana. [273]
• Farhad Simyar, former Associate Dean of External affairs, Strategy and Executive Programs, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Chair and Director of Accountancy programs at the University of Ottawa, University of Hawaii, and Concordia University for over nine years.[274]
• Gholam Reza Sinambari,Head of Department of Environmental Engineering at the Fachhochschule Bingen Germany - University of Applied Sciences
• Kazem Sohraby, former University of Arkansas CSCE department head, former graduate program Director at Stevens Institute of Technology, Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. [275]
• Reza Soleymani, Director, Graduate Program, Concordia University. [276]
• Soroosh Sorooshian, Distinguished Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Irvine. [277]
• Abdolkarim Soroush [278], philosopher.

[edit] T

• Azadeh Tabazadeh, Stanford University scientist from NASA. [279] Article about her in TIME magazine
• Hechmat Tabechian, Physician . Executive Director; Rochester Academy of Medicine. [280]
• Iraj Tabibzadeh, Chief Medical Officer, Health Services, 1973-1996 in WHO Headquarters Geneva, Switzerland. [281]
• Majid Tabrizi, Director of the UW-Platteville Center for Plastics Processing, University of Wisconsin-Platteville [282]
• Omid Tahernia, VP of Xillinx. [283]
• David Tahmassebi, Resonext, President & CEO.[284].
• Vahid Tarokh, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Harvard University
• Hassan Tehranian, Chair of Finance Department, Carroll School of Management, Boston College. [285]
• Bernard Terrany, Direction des Etudes at INSEEC Business School Paris, INSEEC Grand Ecole De Commerce. [286]
• Sabrina Terrany-Aghssa, Associate Professor of Marketing, Siena Heights University Business School, Siena Heights University. [287]
• Mostafa (Tom) Tofigh, WiMAX Forum Application Architecture Task Group Chair.^[138]
• Mohammad Torabi, Member of Indiana University Alliance of Distinguished Rank Professors. Chancellor's Professor and Chairperson.^[139]
• Abdie Haddad Tabrizi, Dean of Math, Science and Engineering, Evergreen Valley College.^[140]

[edit] V

• Cumrun Vafa, physicist, Harvard University.
• M. Vali Siadat, 2005 Illinois Professor of the Year, selected by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.^[141]
• Kambiz Vafai, 2002 Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Riverside.^[142][143]

[edit] Y

• Ehsan Yarshater, Distinguished Professor of Columbia University.^[144]
• Houman Younessi, Professor; Assistant Dean of Academics - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Hartford Graduate Campus; Director Rensselaer Initiative in Systems Engineering (RISE).^[145]
• Shahram Yousefi, Professor; Professional Engineer - Queen's University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.^[146]

[edit] Z

• Lotfi Zadeh, creator of fuzzy logic and fuzzy set, UC Berkeley.
• Sourushe Zandvakili, economist and former Senior Vice President, University of Cincinnati.^[147]
• Esmail Zanjani, Department Chair of Department of Animal Biotechnology at University of Nevada, Reno.^[148]
• Amin Zehtabian, Professor of Electrical Engineering, UMZ Institute of Technology
• Abdolhossein Zarinkoob, eminent scholar
• Zare Mehdi, Seismologist, Director of Seismology Research Center of IIEES.^[149]
• Jamal S. Yagoobi, Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology

[edit] See also

• List of Iranian scientists from the pre-modern era.
• List of Iranian Americans
• Academy of Gundishapur
• Nizamiyyah
• List of universities in Iran
• Darolfonoon
• Higher education in Iran
• List of Iranian Research Centers
• National Library of Iran

[edit] References