Academics
Vartan C. Gregorian
Vartan C. Gregorian (Persian: وارتان گرگوریان, born April 8, 1934) is an Iranian academic, serving as the president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. After receiving his dual Ph.D. in history and humanities from Stanford [...]
Nader Engheta
Nader Engheta (Born 1955 in Tehran) is an Iranian scientist who has notably contributed to the field of periodic, artificial materials. He received his B.S. degree with high honors in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of [...]
Raymond Vahan Damadian
Raymond Vahan Damadian (born March 16, 1936, NY USA) is an Iranian-American practitioner and inventor of the first MR (Magnetic Resonance) Scanning Machine — one of the most useful diagnostic tools of our time. His [...]
Mina J. Bissell
Mina J. Bissell, Ph.D., is an Iranian American biologist and a world-recognized leader in the area of the role of extracellular matrix (ECM) and microenvironment in regulation of tissue-specific function, with special emphasis on breast cancer. [...]
Nima Arkani Hamed
Nima Arkani-Hamed (born 1972) is a leading Iraniantheoretical physicist with interests in high-energy physics, string theory and cosmology. Academic career Arkani-Hamed was born on April 5, 1972 in Houston, Texas, and lived in Boston. His parents [...]
Abass Alavi
Abass Alavi is Professor of Radiology and Neurology. He is currently the Director of Research Education in the Division of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2004, Alavi was awarded the Georg Charles von [...]
Siavash Alamouti
Siavash Alamouti is an Iranian engineer and an Intel fellow who is best known for the invention of the so-called Alamouti space–time block code, filed in 1997 and patented jointly with Vahid Tarokh. Alamouti’s code is [...]
Cumrun Vafa
Cumrun Vafa (Persian: کامران وفا, pronounced ; born 1960 in Tehran) is an Iranian leading string theorist from Harvard University where he started as a Harvard Junior Fellow. He is a recipient of the 2008 [...]
Babak Hassibi
Babak Hassibi (born in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian electrical engineer who is currently professor of Electrical Engineering and head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He received the [...]
Shahriar Afshar
Shahriar S. Afshar (Persian: شهريار صديق افشار ) (born 1971) is an Iranian physicist and an award-winning inventor. He is known for devising and carrying out the Afshar experiment at Harvard University in 2004. As of [...]
