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Sara Zahedi: 2016 European Mathematical Society Prize Winner
Sara Zahedi is 2016’s only female EMS laureate. The 34-year-old has been an assistant professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden since 2014. Her research focuses around computational methods to calculate and emulate dynamic geometry, for instance … Continue reading
Professor Fazlollah Reza -Highly awarded scientist
He was one of the first graduates from Tehran University who majored in Electrical Engineering. In 1945, he completed his master’s degree in Columbia University in the United States and received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University of … Continue reading
Professor Ali Khademhosseini has won the 2014 award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
Khademhosseini was named to receive Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum (NSEF) Young Investigator Award. … This award is bestowed annually and recognizes outstanding interdisciplinary research in Nanoscale science and engineering by a scientist or engineer in the early stages of … Continue reading
Iranian Researcher Maryam Mirzakhani Receives The 2014 Clay Research Award
Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian university professor and mathematician at Stanford University, is the recipient of the 2014 Clay Research Award from the Clay Mathematics Institute. Mirzakhani well-known for her prominent theories on geometry and ergodic theory, received the award along … Continue reading
Massoud Rostami, Hossein Mosallaei, and Davood Ansari – Iranian researchers at Northeastern University of Boston
*Three Iranian researchers offer mathematical model to simulate function of a bacterium Massoud Rostami, Hossein Mosallaei, and Davood Ansari are three Iranian researchers of Northeastern University of Boston, the United States, who have come up with a new way which … Continue reading
Ali Khademhosseini associate professor at Harvard awarded with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) by President Barack Obama
Ali Khademhosseini (born October 30, 1975, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian American-Canadian academic and an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. He has carried out research … Continue reading
Abbas Edalat – professor of computer science and mathematics at Imperial College of London and founder of CASMII
Abbas Edalat (Persian: عباس عدالت) is a professor of computer science and mathematics at Imperial College of London and a political activist. He is also the founder of CASMII, a campaign against sanctions and military intervention in Iran. Edalat has … Continue reading
Dr. Siavash Mahdavi inventor and entrepreneur – His inventions are used in multiple fields : Orthopaedics, Aerospace, Formula one, …
Siavash Mahdavi was born in Tehran, Iran on 18 February 1980. is an inventor and entrepreneur living and based in London. His work in the fields of Engineering and Design have revolutionized many products and design paradigms. His work in … Continue reading
Roozbeh Jafari – associate Professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas and winner of the 2012 National Science Foundation CAREER award
Roozbeh Jafari, an associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas, is currently doing a research on how to enable people to use their mind and thoughts in order to get an application running, choose a … Continue reading
Reihaneh (Rei) Safavi-Naini – Professor of Computer Science
Reihaneh (Rei) Safavi-Naini (Persian: ريحانه صفوی نائينی ) is the AITF Strategic Chair in Information Security at the University of Calgary, Canada. Before joining University of Calgary in 2007, she was a Professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics and … Continue reading
Mehran Kardar Iranian born physicist, full Professor of Physics at the MIT awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship
Mehran Kardar (Persian: مهران کاردار) is a prominent Iranian born physicist, full Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He received his B.A. in Cambridge University, and gained his … Continue reading
Dr. Shams-Kolahi – exceptional scientist known for his research in photovoltaic related technologies.
Wahid Shams-Kolahi (Persian: وحید شمس کلاهی) is a scientist and an electrical engineer who is known for his research in photovoltaic related technologies. Dr. Shams-Kolahi was born in Arak, Iran in 1965. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering … Continue reading
Majid Hassanizadeh professor of hydrogeology at Utrecht University awarded with the von Humboldt price
Majid Hassanizadeh is a professor of hydrogeology at Utrecht University, where he heads the Hydrogeology group at the Faculty of Geosciences.[1] He also is a senior advisor with the Soil and Groundwater Department of Deltares. Scientific Honors He was elected … Continue reading
Professor Hamid Jafarkhani, holder of the NSFs CAREER award
Hamid Jafarkhani (Persian: حمید جعفرخانی), born in 1966 in Tehran, is a Chancellor’s Professor in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Irvine‘s Henry Samueli School of Engineering. His research focuses on communications theory, particularly coding and … Continue reading
Firouz Michael Naderi awarded with NASA’s highest award – the Distinguished Service Medal
Firouz Michael Naderi (born in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian-American scientist and currently the Director for Solar System Exploration at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). In this role Naderi oversees JPL’s robotic solar system missions in planning (such as a … Continue reading
Babak Hassibi Iranian-American Professor at Caltech, holder of multiple awards
Babak Hassibi (born in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-American electrical engineer who is the Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Electrical Engineering and head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He received the B.S. … Continue reading
Professor Reza Iravani
Reza Iravani (in Persian: رضا ایروانی) is a professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.After obtaining his B.Sc degree in 1976 in electrical engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology … Continue reading
Ali Javan (Persian: علی جوان – ‘Ali Javān, Azerbaijani: ) Iranian American physicist and inventor at MIT ranked no. 12 in “Top 100 Living Geniuses”
Ali Javan (Persian: علی جوان – ‘Ali Javān, Azerbaijani: ) is an Iranian American physicist and inventor at MIT. His main contributions to science have been in the fields of quantum physics and spectroscopy. He co-invented the gas laser in 1960, … Continue reading
Professor Caro Lucas – renowned Armenian-Iranian scientist
Caro Lucas (Persian: کارو لوکس; Armenian: Կարո Լուկաս; September 4, 1949 – July 8, 2010) was a renowned Armenian-Iranian scientist. His many areas of contribution to Iranian scientific society include biological computing, computational intelligence, uncertain systems, intelligent control, fuzzy systems, … Continue reading
Mohammed Ghanbari emeritus professor at the University of Essex
Mohammed Ghanbari (Persian: محمد قنبری) is an emeritus professor in the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering focused in the areas of Video Networking at the University of Essex.[1] He graduated from Aryamehr University of Technology in Tehran, Iran with a … Continue reading
Professor Kamran Eshraghian – inventor and recipent of multiple awards
Kamran Eshraghian (born 1945 in Tehran/Iran) is an electronic engineer notable for being a key early pioneer of VLSI in Australia. He is one of the fathers of CMOS VLSI design and his books have been influential on a par … Continue reading
Vartan Gregorian – former president of the Brown University and philanthropist
Vartan Gregorian (Armenian: Persian: وارتان گرگوریان, born April 8, 1934) is an Irani-born Armenian-American academic, serving as the president of Carnegie Corporation of New York After receiving his dual PhD in history and humanities from Stanford University in 1964, Gregorian … Continue reading
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Kamran Elahian – Philathropist and holder of the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award
Kamran Elahian (born 1954) is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Global Catalyst Partners, an international, multistage, technology-oriented venture capital firm. GCP has invested in leading-edge technology companies in the U.S., China, Japan and Israel. Kamran serves on the boards of … Continue reading
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In Memoriam of Dr. Akbar Ghahary: well known inventor and philanthropist
Dr. Ghahary received his master’s in mechanical design and engineering from Aria Mehr University in Iran and his Ph.D., in 1983, in thermoset plastics composition and design in affiliation with Lowell University of Massachusetts. He is well-known for his expertise … Continue reading
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Alenush Terian “Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy”
Originally posted on The other Iran:
“Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy”She was born in 1920 to an Armenian family in Tehran, Iran. After graduating in 1947 from the Science Department of the University of Tehran, she began her career in the physics laboratory…
Prof. Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
http://theconversation.com/profiles/kourosh-kalantar-zadeh-110653/profile_bio “Dr. Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh’s areas of interest include: biosensors, nano-structured thin films and nano-crystal growth, micro-fluidics, MEMS/NEMS, conductive polymers with embedded nano-particles and nanofibers, polymeric optical waveguides, ferroelectric materials, structural characterization of thin films, acoustic waves, and thermoelectric materials.” Also … Continue reading
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Nima Arkani-Hamed, Prof. of Theoretical Physics at Princeton University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nima_Arkani-Hamed “Nima Arkani-Hamed (born 5 April 1972) is an American-Canadian[1] theoretical physicist with interests in high-energy physics, string theory and cosmology. Arkani-Hamed is now on the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[2] He was formerly … Continue reading
Prof. Nader Engheta from the University of Pennsylvania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nader_Engheta “Nader Engheta (Persian: نادر انقطاع) (born October 8, 1955 in Tehran) is an Iranian–American scientist. He is currently the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, affiliated with the departments of Electrical and Systems … Continue reading
Prof. Karim Nayernia, leading stem cell expert
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Nayernia “Karim Nayernia (Persian: کریم نیرنیا) is an Iranian biomedical scientist and a world expert on stem cell biology….Karim Nayernia is an alumnus of the University of Göttingen, where he had defended his dissertation in 1993.[1] He worked at the … Continue reading
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Pirooz Parvarandeh, Chief Technology Officer at Maxim Integrated
http://www.maximintegrated.com/company/leadership/parvarandeh.cfm “Pirooz Parvarandeh became Chief Technology Officer in 2009. He has been a Group President of several of the company’s analog business units since 2005. Pirooz joined Maxim in 1987 and brought Maxim several years of design experience.”
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Remarkable people with Iranian roots 