List of contemporary Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineers

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The following is a list of notable Iranian scholars, scientists and engineers around the world from the contemporary period.

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Behnaam Aazhang, professor, Rice University

Akbar Adibi, electronic engineer, VLSI researcher, professor of engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology

Majid Adibzadeh, scholar and Political scientist

Haleh Afshar, academic and peer, University of York

Masoud Alimohammadi, assassinated quantum field theorist and elementary-particle physicist

Mehdi Amini, professor, The University of Memphis

Shahram Amiri

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

Touraj Atabaki, Professor of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia, Department of History, University of Amsterdam

Abbas Amanat, Professor of History and International Studies at Yale University

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Mehdi Bahadori, Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Shaul Bakhash, historian, George Mason University

Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nariman Behravesh, Chief Economist and Executive Vice President, Global Insight

Mahmoud Behzad, the father of Persian modern biology science

Mina Bissell, Director of UC Berkeley Life Sciences Division

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Rama Cont, Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London; Senior Research Scientist at Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris; recipient of the Louis Bachelier Prize of the French Academy of Sciences (2010)

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Touraj Daryaee, Iranologist and historian, University of California, Irvine

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Abbas Edalat, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, Imperial College London

Kamran Elahian, entrepreneur

Kamran Eshraghian, VLSI pioneer in Australia

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Amir Farmanesh, CEO and President of IranPoll, Edmond Safra fellow at Harvard University

Fereydoon Family, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Physics, Emory University

Yasaman Farzan, Kharazmi young scientist Award in 2006, Young Scientist Prize of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) in 2008, International Centre for Theoretical Physics Prize in 2013

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Nasir Gebelli, computer scientist and video game developer

Zoubin Ghahramani, Professor of Information Engineering Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Saideh Ghods, Founder of Mahak Charity (The Society to Support Children Suffering from Cancer)

Mohammed Ghanbari, professor, University of Essex

Vartan Gregorian, president, Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Mohammad Reza Hafeznia, professor, University of Tehran

Ali Hajimiri, Caltech, co-founder of Axiom Microdevices Inc.

Majid Hassanizadeh, Professor of Hydrogeology; expertise: theories of porous media (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)

Babak Hassibi, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Caltech

Mahmoud Hessaby, physicist, father of modern physics in Iran (Persia)

Payam Heydari, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

Eric Hooglund, professor of political science

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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

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Ali Jafari, Professor of Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University

Hamid Jafarkhani, professor, University of California, Irvine

Ali Javan, physicist and inventor of the gas laser at MIT

Kamaloddin Jenab, pioneering physicist

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Mehran Kardar, physicist, MIT

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Founding Director of Center for Persian Studies, University of Maryland

Homayoon Kazerooni, professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Berkeley Bionics, inventor of the HULC

Shaygan Kheradpir, Chief Operating Office, Barclays

Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Field Operations, Google

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Caro Lucas, scientist, professor and founding director of the Center of Excellence for Control and Intelligent Processing (CIPCE), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, and a researcher at the School of Cognitive Sciences (SCS), Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran

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Esfandiar Maasoumi, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, Southern Methodist University

Abbas Milani, Director of Iranian Studies Program, Stanford University

Farzaneh Milani, Director of Studies in Women and Gender, University of Virginia

Maryam Mirzakhani, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University; first woman recipient of the Fields Medal (2014)

Parviz Moin, Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

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

Ali Montazeri, Public Health Scientist at the Health Metrics Research Center of the Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research

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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!

Camran Nezhat, Director, Stanford Endoscopy Center for Training & Technology, Stanford University

Mehrdad Nikoonahad, Vice president, Business Development, PDF Solutions, Inc.

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Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay

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Kaveh Pahlavan, Professor and Director of CWINS, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Hashem Pesaran, 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, Cambridge University

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Ali R. Rabi, founding chair of the Middle East Citizens Assembly, University of Maryland

Majid Rafizadeh, political scientist scholar at Harvard University

Yahya Rahmat-Samii, professor of electromagnetics at UCLA

Sohrab Rohani, chair, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Western Ontario

Mostafa Ronaghi, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Illumina

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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

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

Hossein Seifzadeh, Professor of Department of Political Sciences, University of Tehran

Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, lecturer in Achaemenid archeology and Iranology at Harvard University, Harvard University, full Professor of history in Eastern Oregon University, Eastern Oregon University

Mohammad Shahidehpour, former Dean of the Graduate College and Associate VP for Research, Illinois Institute of Technology

Freidoon Shahidi, university research professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Freydoon Shahidi, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Purdue University

Manuchehr Shahrokhi, Craig Fellow/Professor, Editor 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

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

Gholam Reza Sinambari, Chair of Department of Environmental Engineering, Fachhochschule Bingen

Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, senior scientist, Henry Ford Health System, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran

Abdolkarim Soroush, philosopher

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Kamran Talattof, professor, University of Arizona

Vahid Tarokh, professor, Harvard University

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Cumrun Vafa, physicist, Harvard University

Saba Valadkhan, biomedical scientist; assistant professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University

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Alireza Yaghoubi, materials scientist, designer and entrepreneur

Ehsan Yarshater, Distinguished Professor, Columbia University

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 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

Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob, scholar of Iranian literature, history of literature, Persian culture and history

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