Modern Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineers

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

The list contains only Chairs, Directors, Deans, Award winning or prominent Internationally recognized scholars.

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Faraj Aalaei, Centillium communications, CEO & Co-Founder.^*
Bijan Aalami, Founder of Adapt Software Group. ^*
Bizhan Aarabi, Director of Neurotrauma. University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine.^*.htm]
Parham Aarabi, World Renowned Innovator, award winning lecturer, and Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto. ^*
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. ^*
Reza Abbaschian, President of ASM International; the largest materials society in USA. Dean of Bourns College of Engineering 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. ^*
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. ^*
Omid Abri, Director of Center for Non-invasive Medicine, Germany. ^*
Fariba Adelkhah, Director of Research at Centre for International Studies and Research, France. ^*
Peyman Adjamian, Research Fellow at Neurosciences Research Institute, Aston University, Birmingham, England. ^*
Haleh Afshar, of The University of York. Honorary President of the United Nation Association's International Services. ^*
Lily Afshar, World class guitarist of the University of Memphis.
Peyman Aghssa, Vehicle Crash Safety Senior Engineer at Ford Motor Company. ^*
Pirooz Aghssa, Professor of Theater at Eastern Michigan University. ^*
Nasrollah Ahadiat, Professor, scholar, and former Chair of Accounting Department, California State Polytechnic University. ^*
Ali Aivani, Managing Director of Alitronika Digital Video Systems, The Netherlands. ^*
Majid Ahmadi, of The University of Windsor. Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition and Computer in Electrical Engineering Journal. ^*
Reza Ahy, Aperto, President & CEO. ^*
Rayhaneh Akhavan, of The University of Michigan. ^*
Mohammad Ala, California State University, Los Angeles Outstanding Professor, Director of CSU-LA Productivity Center. ^*
Amin Amini, Director, CVIA Lab, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis. ^*
Mehdi Aminrazavi, Chair and Professor of Philosophy and Religion, University of Mary Washington. ^*
Samim Anghaie, Director of the Innovative Nuclear Space Power and Propulsion Institute (INSPI), ^*.^*
Humayun Ansari, Director of the Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies, Royal Holloway University of London. ^*
Parviz Ansari, Chair of Physics Department, Seton Hall University. ^*
Payman Arabshahi, NASA researcher at Caltech. Former editor-in-chief of the IEEE Neural Network Council's newsletter.^*
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. [http://www.mcmaster.ca/research/sciencecity/anvari.htm
Hesameddin Arfaei, senior fellow of the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics. ^*
Jafar Arkani-Hamed of McGill University. Director of Research, NASA group Achievement Award, 1985. ^*^*^*
Nima Arkani-Hamed, physicist, Harvard University.
Farhad Ardalan, physicist, IPM.
Nasser Ashgriz, of The University of Toronto.^*
Mohammad Ashrafzadeh, Director Emeritus, Boston University Medical Center ^*
Kaveh Ashrafi of UCSF. SEARLE Scholar. ^*
Ghassem R. Asrar
Abolhasan Astaneh, of UC Berkeley, United States House of Representatives: [http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~astaneh/1-Services/Astaneh-Testimony%20Congress-March%206%20Final.pdf" target="_blank" >^*
Touraj Atabaki, Holds the endowed chair of 'Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia' at the Department of History, University of Amsterdam, ^*
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). ^*

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Shaul Bakhash, prominent historian at George Mason University
Amir Banihashemi of Carleton University, Editor of Coding and Commun. for IEEE Trans. on Communications.^*
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. ^*
Farokh Bastani, Director, Embedded Software Center, University of Texas at Dallas. ^*^*
Khosrow Behbehani, Director of Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington.^*
Nariman Behravesh, Chief Economist and Executive Vice President for Global Insight. Designated #1 in USA Today's 2004 ranking of top economic forecasters. ^*
Hamid Berenji, NASA senior research scientist. ^*
Mina Bissel, Director of UC Berkeley Life Sciences Division. ^*
Hooshang Bolooki, Director, Adult Cardiac Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine. ^*

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Houchang Chehabi, Woodrow Wilson Fellow of Boston University. ^*

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Reza Dabestani, Research Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Senior Staff Fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. ^*
Mohammad Dadashzadeh, Director of Applied Technology in Business (ATiB) Program at Oakland University. ^*
Raymond Damadian, Armenian inventor of the MRI.
Ali Danesh, Director of Research at The Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University. ^*
Kurosh Darvish, Director, Bio-Computational Mechanics Research Group of the Automobile Safety Laboratory, University of Virginia. ^*
Bijan Davari, Senior scientist at IBM. ^*
Harry Davoody, ST Assembly Test Services Ltd. CEO. ^*
Hashem Dezhbakhsh, Interim Chair, Department of Economics, Emory University. ^*

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Touradj Ebrahimi, Distinguished Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - EPFL.^*
Abbas Edalat of Imperial College. ^*
Mory Ejabat, Chairman, Co-founder of Zhone Technologoies. ^*
Kamran Elahian, Hi-Tech entrepreneur. ^*
Dara Entekhabi, of MIT. ^*
Iraj Eshraghi, Director of the Petroleum Engineering Program in Chemical Engineering Department, University of Southern California. ^*
Ali Eskandarian, Associate Dean of the College of Professional Studies at George Washington University. ^*
Hossein Eslambolchi, AT&T's Chief Technology Officer and the President of Bell Labs. ^*
Hamid Etemad, McGill University scholar

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Amir Faghri, Dean of the School of Engineering and United Technologies Chair Professor in Thermal-Fluids Engineering, University of Connecticut.^*
Fereydoon Family, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Physics, Emory University.^*
Peyman Faratin, Research Scientist, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT.^*
Farr Farhan, Movaz Networks, Chief Development Officer. ^*
Nariman Farvardin, Dean, Clarck School of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. ^*
Feyzi Fatehi, Endeavors Technology, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations. ^*
Ali Fatemi, Director, Fatigue and Fracture Research Laboratory, Mechanical, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Department, University of Toledo. ^*
Ali Fatemi (France), Dean of Graduate School of Business, American University of Paris.^*
Yahya Fathi, Co-Director of Operations Research Program at North Carolina State University. ^*
Abdollah Ferdowsi, Distinguished Professor, College of Business, Ferris State University. ^*
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. ^*
Abbas Firoozabadi, Winner of 2002 Anthony Lucas Gold Medal.^* He is professor of Reservoir Engineering at Yale University and Reservoir Research Institute.

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Reza Ghaffarian, NASA senior research scientist. ^*
Akbar Ghahary, CEO and Chairman, Safas Corporation. ^*
Mohammed Ghanbari, of University of Essex. Former Associate Editor to IEEE Transactions on Multimedia ^*
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Director of the database laboratory at University of Southern California.^*
Morteza Gharib of Caltech. Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering, Director of Measurements Lab.^*^*
Farzad Ghazvinian, Teledesic Network, CTO & Senior Vice President.^*
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. ^*
Farid Golnaraghi, Research Chair at Mechatronic and Smart Material Systems, University of Waterloo.^*
Reza Ghodssi, Director of Laboratory of MEMS Sensors and Actuators (MSAL), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. ^*
Faramarz Gordaninejad, Director of Composite and Intelligent Materials Laboratory, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. ^*^*
Vartan Gregorian, President of The Carnegie Corporation of New York.^*

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Ali Haghani, Chair, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. ^*
Alireza Haghighat, Chair, Nuclear Engineering Department, University of Florida, Chair, University of Florida Transport Theory Group (UFTTG). [http://ufttg.nre.ufl.edu/
Ross Haghighat, Triton Systems, Founder, Chairman and CEO. ^*
Ali Hajimiri, of Caltech. Distinguished scientist, and co-founder of Axiom Microdevices Inc. ^*
Feridun Hamdullahpur, Vice President, Carleton University. Dr. Hamdullahpur is half Iranian, Half Turk (From Turkey).^*
Mohsen Hashtroodi
Houchang Hassan-Yari, Head of Politics and Economics Department, Royal Military College of Canada. ^*
Babak Hassibi, Professor of electrical engineering at Caltech.^*
Samad Hayati, NASA project manager. ^*
Mohammad Heydari-Malayeri of the NASA Hubble Heritage Project. ^*
Samad Hedayat, Distinguished Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago. ^*
Shahin Hedayat, Centillium Communications, President & Co-Founder.^*
Mahmoud Hessabi, physicist. Father of Modern Physics in Iran (Persia).
Hossain Heydari, Director, Information Security Program at James Madison University. ^*
Behrouz Homayoun Far, Director of International Institute for Agent-Based Software System Research (IIASR), University of Calgary. ^*
Dr. A. Hoodashtian, Director of the Montreal International School of Management, based in Montreal, Canada. ^*
Mohammad H. Hosni, Department Head and the Frankenhoff Chair in Engineering, Kansas State University. ^*^*
Ahmad Hosseini, Dean, School of Business and Economics, Sonoma State University. ^*
Hossein Hosseini, Co-Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. ^*
Kaveh Hushyar, Vice President, AT&T Network Planning & Engineering. ^*

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Roozbeh Izadi-Zamanabadi, Manager at Aalborg University Space Center, Denmark. ^*

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Parviz Jabehdar, considered by many as Iran's Father of Electrical Engineering. Dean of ECE Department of University of Tehran. First winner of "Chehreh-i Mandegar" Award.^*
Hamid Jafarkhani of UC Irvine
Ali Jafari, Director, CyberLab, Purdue University. ^*
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. ^*
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. ^*
Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Wireless Communications ^*
Mo Jamshidi, NASA senior scientist.^*
Yusef Javadi, Sprint Corporation. President, Sprint International.^*
Ali Javan, physicist and inventor of the Gas Laser.

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Mojtaba Kahrizi, Director, Graduate Program (M.Eng) & Director Professional Development Programs, Concordia University. ^*
Iraj Kalantari, Chair, department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University. ^*
Mariam Kamkar, Head of the Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden. ^*
Nasser Kanani, Head of Materials Science Department, Technical University of Berlin. ^*
Mehran Kardar, physicist, MIT. ^*
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Founding Director of Center for Persian Studies, University of Maryland. ^*
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. ^*
Massoud Kaviany, Distinguished lecturer, University of Michigan. ^*
Ella Kazerooni, Professor and Director of the Thoracic Radiology Division, University of Michigan. ^*
M. A. Ketabchi, CEO, President and Chairman, Savvion. ^*
Reza M. Khanbilvardi, Director of ICERD, The City College of New York,^*
Amir K. Khandani, NSERC-Nortel Networks Research Chair, and Director of Coding and Signal Transmission Laboratory, University of Waterloo. ^*
Hadi Kharaghani, Professor of Mathematics, University of Lethbridge ^*.
Shaygan Kheradpir, Chief Information Officer, Verizon Communications. ^*
Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Field Operations at Google. ^*

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Reza Langari of Texas A&M University. Distinguished scientist, studied under Lotfi Zadeh. ^*
Shahram Latifi of UNLV. IEEE Fellow, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers.^*

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Esfandiar Maasoumi of Southern Methodist University. Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.^*
Ali Madanipour, of The University of Newcastle upon Tyne. ^*
Brom Mahbod, Oracle Corporation, VP of e-Services Platform.^*
Mohammad Mahdian, Ph.D. and researcher at Microsoft Research ^*
Yusuf "Yoshi" Maisami Systems Engineer and Cofounder of CanYouconnect.com.
Farrokh B. Malihi, Director, Fargol Research Group.^*
Pejman Makhfi, Knowledge Modeling scientist, makhfi.com.^*, IEEE Neural Network Society.
Michael Mansouri, Probix, Inc. President & CEO.^*
Farzad Mashayek, Director of Graduate Studies, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago. ^*
Mohsen Mastafavi, Dean, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. ^*
Morteza Monte Mehrabadi, Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tulane University.^*
Mohsen Meydani, Director, Vascular Biology Laboratory, and Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA Senior Scientist at Tufts University. ^*
Simin Nikbin Meydani, Senior Scientist and Director at Tufts University. ^*
Abbas Milani, Director of Iranian Studies Program, Stanford University.
Majid Mirmehdi, of The University of Bristol. Associate Editor of Pattern Aanalysis and Applications Journal.^*
Amir Mirmiran, Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University.^*
Bahman Mirshab, Dean, University of Detroit Mercy. ^*
Saed Mirzadeh, Senior Research & Development Staff, Nuclear Medicine Program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ^*
Manoo Missaghi, Founder and CEO, WEBVIEWS, Inc. ^*.
Mohsen Moazami, VP of Internet Business Solutions Group Cisco Systems.^*
Barzin Mobasher of Arizona State University. ^*
Shahriar Mobashery of The University of Notre Dame. Distinguished Professor. ^*
Nader Modanlo, Chairman of Final Analysis Communication Services, Inc.^*
Mohammad Modarres of the University of Maryland, College Park. Distinguished Scholar Award, 1995. Fellow, American Nuclear Society. ^*^*
Parviz Moin, Director and Senior Scientist, Stanford University. ^*
Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Associate Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis. ^*
Majid Molki of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Associate Editor of Heat Transfer Engineering. ^*
Zab Mosenifar, Medical Director, Cedars-Sinai Center for Chest Diseases. ^*
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.^*^*
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. ^*

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Firouz Naderi, NASA director of Mars Program.
Behzad Nadji, Vice President, AT&T Labs Research. ^*
David Naffis, Systems Engineer and Cofounder of CanYouConnect.com
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, philosopher, George Washington University.
Zainalabedin Navabi, Researcher and EDA Consultant, VHDL, Verilog, Digital System Design, Test, Simulation, Northeastern University, Boston. ^*
Ali Nayeri, physicist, MIT and The Institute for Fundamental Theory.^*.
Soheil Nazarian, Director of Center for Highway Materials Research, University of Texas at El Paso.^*
Farzad Nazem, Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President, at Yahoo. ^*
Mehrdad Negahban, Director of Graduate Program, Department of Engineering Mechanics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. ^*
Sia Nemat-Nasser, Director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials, UCSD. ^*
Camran Nezhat, Director, Stanford Endoscopy Center for Training & Technology, Stanford University. ^*
Kamran Nikbin, Principal Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College. ^*
Ali Niknejad of UC Berkeley, Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Co-Director of BSIM Project. ^*^*
Mehrdad Nikoonahad, Vice-president, Business Development, PDF Solutions, Inc. ^*
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.^*

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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. ^*
Pierre Omidyar, Founder of e-Bay. ^*
Rasoul Oskouy, co-founder of Juniper Networks

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Arman Pahlavan, Co-chairman, Manatt's Venture Capital. ^*
Masood Parang, Associate Dean, University of Tennessee.^*
Iraj Parchamazad, Chair of Chemistry Department, University of La Verne. ^*
Hassan Parsa, Founder, Lucent Venture Partners LLC. ^*
Kiumars Parvin, Chair, Dept of Physics, San Jose State University.^*
Massoud Pedram, Distinguished scientist, University of Southern California. ^*
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. [http://www.iza.org/index_html?mainframe=http://www.iza.org/iza/en/webcontent/personnel/photos/index_html?key=181
Nossrat Peseschkian, physician and psychotherapist, living in Germany.
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. ^*
Roozbeh Pournader, CTO and vice-chairman, Sharif FarsiWeb, Inc.. ^*

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Farshad Rafii, Founding Director of the Center for Technology and Enterprise at Babson College.^*
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 ^*
Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Chair, Electrical Engineering Department at the UCLA. ^*
Farzad Rahnema, Associate Chair of The Woodruff School, and Chair of Nuclear Engineering Program at Georgia Institute of Technology. ^*
David Rahni, Senior Medical Research Associate, CUNY Medical School. ^*
Asghar Rastegar, Associate Chairman for Academic Affairs, Yale University School of Medicine. ^*
Bahram Ravani, Interim Chair of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and former Chair of the Department Mechanical Engineering, UC Davis. ^*
Behzad Razavi, Director, Communications Circuits Laboratory, UCLA.^*
Bahman Rezaie, Chairman, Engineering Dept of St. Mary's University. ^*
Ali Rezazadeh, Head of Microwave Engineering Research Group and Director of the Electromagnetics Centre, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. ^*
Manijeh Razeghi, Director, Center for Quantum Devices, Northwestern University. ^*
Behrooz Rezvani, Founder and CTO, Ikanos. ^*
Mostafa Ronaghi, Senior Research Associate, Stanford University ^*
Sohrab Rohani Chair, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, The University of Western Ontario.^*
Amir Rostami, Chairman, Department of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University.^*^*

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Bijan Saadatmand, former director of International Student and Scholar Services at James Madison University. ^*
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,^*.
Nader Sadegh of Georgia Tech, Associate Editor of Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control. ^*
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. ^*
Rasoul Sadighi-bonabi, considered by many as Iran's top Laser scientist. Professor of Sharif University.Sadighi Homepage
Bijan Safai, Chairman, Department of Dermatology, New York Medical College.^*
Safieddin Safavi-Naeini, Professor, University of Waterloo. ^*
Muhammad Sahimi, Chairman, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Southern California. ^*
Farrokh Saidi, Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World Permanent Member of Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences Shahid Beheshti University School of Medicine ^*," target="_blank" >former Dean of School of Medicine, Pahlavi University, Shiraz, Iran Shiraz University of Medical Sciences [http://www.sums.ac.ir
Hossein Saiedian, Professor/Associate Chair, University of Kansas. ^*
Mehrdad Saif, Director, School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University. ^*
Faramarz F. Samavati, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Computer Sciences Department University of Calgary.^*
Kourosh Salami, UniDiCom CEO, Founder.^*
Ehsan Samei, Director of Graduate Program, Medical Physics Department, Duke University.^*
Ahmad Samie-Shooshtari, CEO, Founder of Property Center, Inc., Northrop University. ^*
Masoud Sanayei, Director of The Structures Laboratory, Tufts University. ^*
Nader Saniei, Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. ^*
Jafar Saniie, Director of the Ultrasonic Information Processing Laboratory, Illinois Institute of Technology.^*
Ali Sarabi, Oresis Communications, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO. ^*
Majid Sarrafzadeh, Director of Embedded and Reconfigurable Systems Lab at UCLA. ^*
Homayoun Seraji, Senior Research Scientist, JPL, NASA. ^*
Lotfollah Shafai, Distinguished Professor, Canada Research Chair in Applied Electromagnetics, University of Manitoba. ^*
Homa Shabahang, Associate Vice President for Regional Campuses, University of La Verne. ^*
Hamed Shahbazi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of infotouch Inc. ^*
Mohammad Shahidehpour, Former Dean of the Graduate College and Associate VP for Research at Illinois Institute of Technology. ^*
Ramin Shahidi, Cbyon, Inc. Founder and CTO.^*
Ghavam G. Shahidi, Director of silicon science for IBM Research.^*
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. ^*^*^*
Mehrdad Shahshahani Professor, School of Mathematics, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Tehran, Iran. ^*
Nahid Shahmehri, Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Information, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden. ^*
Shahriar Shahriari, Chair, department of Mathematics, Pomona College. ^*
Manuchehr Shahrokhi, Professor & Editor of Global Finance JournalCalifornia State University, Fresno.^*
Tony Shakib, AOptix Technologies, President & CEO. ^*.
Yusef Shayan, Associate Chair, EEC Department, Concordia University. ^*
Amin Shokrollahi, Professor of I&C faculty and the head of ALGO lab, EPFL, Switzerland. ^*
Ali Shokoufandeh, Associate Professor of Computer Science and co-director of of VisCog lab, Drexel University, USA. ^*
Nader Shooshtari, Chair, Department of Management & Marketing, University of Montana. ^*
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.^*
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. ^*
Shahab Sokhansanj, researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ^*
Reza Soleymani, Director, Graduate Program, Concordia University. ^*
Soroosh Sorooshian, Distinguished Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Irvine. ^*
Abdolkarim Soroush ^*, philosopher.
Zohreh Sullivan, distinguished teacher of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ^*

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Azadeh Tabazadeh, Stanford University scientist from NASA. [http://www.irandokht.com/editorial/index4.php?area=wor§ionID=53&editorialID=848 Article about her in TIME magazine
Hechmat Tabechian, Physician . Executive Director; Rochester Academy of Medicine. ^*
Yahya Tabesh, CEO, Cyber 7, Inc.. ^*
Iraj Tabibzadeh, Chief Medical Officer, Health Services, 1973-1996 in WHO Headquarters Geneva, Switzerland. ^*
Behnam Tabrizi of Stanford University. ^*
Majid Tabrizi, Director of the UW-Platteville Center for Plastics Processing, University of Wisconsin-Platteville ^*
Omid Tahernia, VP of Xillinx. ^*
David Tahmassebi, Resonext, President & CEO.^*.
Nasser Takmil Homayoun, historian
Hassan Tehranian, Chair of Finance Department, Carroll School of Management, Boston College. ^*
Majid Tehranian, of The University of Hawaii, Director of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research. ^*
Sabrina Terrany, Professor of Marketing & International Business and Director of Study Abroad Program (France, China), Siena Heights University. ^*
Mohammad Torabi, Member of Indiana University Alliance of Distinguished Rank Professors. Chancellor's Professor and Chairperson. ^*

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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.^*
Kambiz Vafai, 2002 Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Riverside. ^*^*

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Ehsan Yarshater, Distinguished Professor of Columbia University. ^*
Shahram Yazdanpanah, Space Debris Research Scientist, Space Department of Aerospace Research Institute - Manager of "Space Science" Weblog. Scientific Journalist with some articles in Nojum,Aerospace News & Havafaza magazines. ^*
Houman Younessi, Professor; Assistant Dean of Academics - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Hartford Graduate Campus; Director Rensselaer Initiative in Systems Engineering (RISE). ^*

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Lotfi Zadeh, creator of fuzzy logic and fuzzy set, UC Berkeley.
Sourushe Zandvakili, former Senior Vice President, University of Cincinnati. ^*
Esmail Zanjani, Department Chair of Department of Animal Biotechnology at University of Nevada, Reno. ^*
Abdolhossein Zarinkoob, eminent scholar
Armin Zijerdi, Department Chair of Political Science and Social Engineering, University of Virginia

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