Academics

Bijan Mossavar Rahmani

Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, of RAK Petroleum PCL, a closely held company formed in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE and funded by public entities and individuals in the [...]

Mahmoud Bambouyani

Mahmoud Bambouyani Sensei, 8th Dan, is the chief instructor at ITKA (International Traditional Karate Association, www.itka-karate.com) and internationally renowned for his level of instruction. Mahmoud Bambouyani Sensei has appeared on major television stations including CBS, NBC, [...]

Ehsan Afshari

Ehsan Afshari was born in 1979. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran and the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of [...]

Arjang A. Assad

Arjang A. Assad was named dean of the University at Buffalo School of Management on August 1, 2008. His previous position was professor of management science and Dean’s Professor for Extraordinary Service in the Robert H. [...]

Babak Parviz

Babak received his graduate degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. From 2000 to 2001 he was with Nanovation Technologies Inc. as a device designer and a product manager working on integrated photonics. He [...]

Mohsen Khatib Rahbar

Mohsen Khatib-Rahbar is president of Energy Research, Inc., in Rockville, Maryland. His research focuses on nuclear reactor safety and PRA. He has published extensively on severe accidents, source terms, methods for uncertainty analysis,consequence assessment, thermal hydraulics, [...]

Nasser Khalili

Professor Nasser D. Khalili KCSS, KCFO is a scholar, collector and benefactor of international standing, who has often been called the ‘cultural ambassador of Islam’ by leaders of Muslim countries. After completing his schooling and national [...]

Ata Amini

Ata Amini is a PhD in computational chemistry, graduated from Newcastle University in 2003. He came to the UK after granting a scholarship by the Newcastle University and the EPSRC to do his PhD. He worked [...]

Cyrus Hadavi

Dr. Hadavi founded Adexa in 1994. Prior to Adexa he was one of the original team members at i2 technologies involved in many different aspects of the business and fast growth of the company. His involvement [...]

Fariba Ghodsian

Dr. Fariba Ghodsian is the Chief Investment Officer and a Managing Member of DAFNA Capital Management. Dr. Ghodsian received her M.B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1991, and completed her postdoctoral fellowship [...]