The following is a non-conclusive list of highly respected Iranian scientists and technologists around the world from the modern era. The list is continually subject to change.

The list contains only Chairs, Directors, Deans, and prominent Internationally recognized scientists.

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• Mo Jamshidi, NASA senior scientist.[1]
• Mohsen Hashtroodi
• Omid Abri , Director of Center for Non-invasive Medicine, Germany. [2]
• Ali Javan, physicist and inventor of the Gas Laser.
• Firouz Naderi , NASA director of Mars Program.
• Reza Ghaffarian
• Mory Ejabat , Chairman, Co-founder of Zhone Technologoies. [3]
• Bijan Aalami , Founder of Adapt Software Group. [4]
• Mohsen Moazami , VP of Internet Business Solutions Group Cisco Systems.[5]
• Bizhan Aarabi , Director of Neurotrauma. University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine.[6]
• Hamid Berenji , NASA senior research scientist. [7]
• Kamran Elahian , Hi-Tech entrepreneur. [8]
• Reza Ghaffarian , NASA senior research scientist. [9]
• Nader Modanlo , Chairman of Final Analysis Communication Services, Inc.[10]
• Ghassem R. Asrar
• Hamed Shahbazi , Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of infotouch Inc. [11]
• Parviz Moin , Director and Senior Scientist, Stanford University. [12]
• Shiva Seyed Forootan
• Cumrun Vafa, physicist, Harvard University.
• Nima Arkani-Hamed, physicist, UC Berkeley.
• Mina Bissel , Director of UC Berkeley Life Sciences Division. [13]
• Fariba Adelkhah , Director of Research at Centre for International Studies and Research , France. [14]
• Simin Nikbin Meydani , Senior Scientist and Director at Tufts University. [15]
• Nahid Shahmehri , Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Information, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden. [16]
• Mariam Kamkar , Head of the Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden. [17]
• Azadeh Tabazadeh , Stanford University scientist from NASA. [18] Article about her in TIME magazine
• Manijeh Razeghi , Director, Center for Quantum Devices, Northwestern University. [19]
• Patricia L. Mokhtarian , Associate Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis. [20]
• Lotfi Zadeh, creator of fuzzy logic and fuzzy set, UC Berkeley.
• Nossrat Peseschkian, physician and psychotherapist, living in Germany.
• Abdolkarim Soroush [21], philosopher.
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr, philosopher, George Washington University.
• Mahmoud Hessabi, physicist. Father of Modern Physics in Iran.
• Shaygan Kheradpir , Chief Information Officer, Verizon Communications. [22]
• 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. [23]
• Mehran Kardar , physicist, MIT. [24]
• Samad Hayati , NASA project manager. [25]
• Sia Nemat-Nasser , Director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials, UCSD. [26]
• Shahram Ghandeharizadeh , Director of the database laboratory at University of Southern California.[27]
• Ali Jafari , Director, CyberLab, Purdue University. [28]
• Mohammad Ashrafzadeh , Director Emeritus, Boston University Medical Center [29]
• Mehrdad Nikoonahad , Vice President of Technology for Strategic Business Development, KLA-Tencor Corporation. [30]
• Arman Pahlavan , Co-chairman, Manatt's Venture Capital. [31]
• Hassan Parsa , Founder, Lucent Venture Partners LLC. [32]
• Behrooz Rezvani , Founder and CTO, Ikanos. [33]
• Ali Sarabi , Oresis Communications, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO. [34]
• Ramin Shahidi , Cbyon, Inc. Founder and CTO.[35]
• Tony Shakib , AOptix Technologies, President & CEO. [36].
• David Tahmassebi , Resonext, President & CEO.[37].
• Manoo Missaghi , Founder and CEO, WEBVIEWS, Inc. [38].
• M. A. Ketabchi , CEO, President and Chairman, Savvion. [39]
• Faraj Aalaei , Centillium communications, CEO & Co-Founder.[40]
• Reza Ahy , Aperto, President & CEO. [41]
• Feyzi Fatehi , Endeavors Technology, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations. [42]
• Farzad Ghazvinian , Teledesic Network, CTO & Senior Vice President.[43]
• Ross Haghighat , Triton Systems, Founder, Chairman and CEO. [44]
• Shahin Hedayat , Centillium Communications, President & Co-Founder.[45]
• Yusef Javadi , Sprint Corporation. President, Sprint International.[46]
• Brom Mahbod , Oracle Corporation, VP of e-Services Platform.[47]
• Michael Mansouri , Probix, Inc. President & CEO.[48]
• Harry Davoody , ST Assembly Test Services Ltd. CEO. [49]
• Farr Farhan , Movaz Networks, Chief Development Officer. [50]
• Akbar Ghahary , CEO and Chairman, Safas Corporation. [51]
• Samim Anghaie , Director of the Innovative Nuclear Space Power and Propulsion Institute (INSPI), [52].[53]
• Iraj Tabibzadeh , Chief Medical Officer, Health Services, 1973-1996 in WHO Headquarters Geneva, Switzerland. [54]
• Hooshang Bolooki , Director, Adult Cardiac Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine. [55]
• Bijan Davari , Senior scientist at IBM. [56]
• Hossein Eslambolchi , AT&T's Chief Technology Officer and the President of Bell Labs. [57]
• Farzad Nazem , Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President, at Yahoo. [58]
• Omid Kordestani , Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Field Operations at Google. [59]
• Pierre Omidyar, Founder of e-Bay. [60]
• Alireza Haghighat , Chair, Nuclear Engineering Department, University of Florida, Chair, University of Florida Transport Theory Group (UFTTG). [61] [62]
• Ali Nayeri , physicist, MIT and The Institute for Fundamental Theory.[63].
• Mohsen Mastafavi , Dean, Cornell University College of Architecture. [64]
• Zab Mosenifar , Medical Director, Cedars-Sinai Center for Chest Diseases. [65]
• Bahman Mirshab , Dean, University of Detroit Mercy. [66]
• Assad Panah , former President and current member of Board of Directors of The American Association of Academies of Science . [67]
• David Rahni , Senior Medical Research Associate, CUNY Medical School. [68]
• Soroosh Sorooshian , Distinguished Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Irvine. [69]
• Abolhasan Astaneh , of UC Berkeley, [70] [71]. His professional testimony before the Committee on Science of the United States House of Representatives: [72]
• Hassan Tehranian , Chair of Finance Department, Carroll School of Management, Boston College. [73]
• 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.[74][75]
• Payman Arabshahi , NASA researcher at Caltech. Former editor-in-chief of the IEEE Neural Network Council's newsletter. [76]
• Mohammed Ghanbari , of University of Essex. Former Associate Editor to IEEE Transactions on Multimedia [77]
• 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. [78]
• Reza Langari of Texas A&M University. Distinguished scientist, studied under Lotfi Zadeh. [79]
• Hossein Hosseini , Co-Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. [80]
• Asghar Rastegar , Associate Chairman for Academic Affairs, Yale University School of Medicine. [81]
• Rohani, Sohrab Chair, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, The University of Western Ontario.[82]
• Behzad Razavi , Director, Communications Circuits Laboratory, UCLA.[83]
• Ali Hajimiri , of Caltech. Distinguished scientist, and co-founder of Axiom Microdevices Inc. [84]
• Yahya Fathi , Co-Director of Operations Research Program at North Carolina State University. [85]
• Ehsan Yarshater , Distinguished Professor of UCLA. [86]
• Dara Entekhabi , of MIT. [87]
• 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 . [88]
• Majid Sarrafzadeh , Director of Embedded and Reconfigurable Systems Lab at UCLA. [89]
• Morteza Abbaszadegan , Director of National Science Foundation Water Quality Center at Arizona State University.
• Barzin Mobasher of Arizona State University. [90]
• Nasser Ashgriz , of The University of Toronto.[91]
• Farid Golnaraghi , Research Chair at Mechatronic and Smart Material Systems, University of Waterloo.[92]
• Masoud Sanayei , Director of The Structures Laboratory, Tufts University. [93]
• Majid Ahmadi , of The University of Windsor. Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition and Computer in Electrical Engineering Journal. [94]
• Humayun Ansari , Director of the Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies, Royal Holloway University of London. [95]
• Amin Amini , Director, CVIA Lab, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis. [96]
• Amir Mirmiran , Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University.[97]
• Majid Tehranian , of The University of Hawaii, Director of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research . [98]
• Mehrdad Saif , Director, School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University. [99]
• Farshad Rafii , Founding Director of the Center for Technology and Enterprise at Babson College.[100]
• Lotfollah Shafai , Distinguished Professor, Canada Research Chair in Applied Electromagnetics, University of Manitoba. [101]
• Yahya Rahmat-Samii , Chair, Electrical Engineering Department at the UCLA. [102]
• Massoud Pedram , Distinguished scientist, University of Southern California. [103]
• Behnam Tabrizi of Stanford University. [104]
• Kurosh Darvish , Director, Bio-Computational Mechanics Research Group of the Automobile Safety Laboratory, University of Virginia. [105]
• Massoud Kaviany , Distinguished lecturer, University of Michigan. [106]
• Rayhaneh Akhavan , of The University of Michigan. [107]
• 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. [108] [109]
• Hashem Dezhbakhsh , Interim Chair, Dept of Economics, Emory University. [110]
• Zainalabedin Navabi , Researcher and EDA Consultant, VHDL, Verilog, Digital System Design, Test, Simulation, Northeastern University.[111]
• Feridun Hamdullahpur , Vice President, Carleton University. [112]
• Roozbeh Izadi-Zamanabadi , Manager at Aalborg University Space Center, Denmark. [113]
• Houchang Chehabi of Boston University. [114]
• Nariman Farvardin , Dean, Clarck School of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. [115]
• Mostafa Kaveh , Department Head, Electrical Engineering Dept, University of Minnesota. [116]
• Farzad Mashayek , Director of Graduate Studies, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago. [117]
• Sourushe Zandvakili , former Senior Vice President, University of Cincinnati. [118]
• Bijan Saadatmand , former director of International Student and Scholar Services at James Madison University. [119]
• Touraj Atabaki , Holds the endowed chair of 'Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia' at the Department of History, University of Amsterdam, [120]
• Ali Fatemi , Director, Fatigue and Fracture Research Laboratory, Mechanical, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Department, University of Toledo. [121]
• 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.[122]
• Masood Parang , Associate Dean, University of Tennessee.[123]
• 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.[124]
• Amir Banihashemi of Carleton University, Editor of Coding and Commun. for IEEE Trans. on Communications.[125]
• Shahab Sokhansanj , researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. [126]
• Ehsan Samei , Director of Graduate Program, Medical Physics Department, Duke University.[127]
• Rasoul Oskouy , co-founder of Juniper Networks
• 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. [128]
• Behrouz Homayoun Far , Director of International Institute for Agent-Based Software System Research (IIASR), University of Calgary. [129]
• Ali Madanipour , of The University of Newcastle upon Tyne. [130]
• Iraj Kalantari , Chair, department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University. [131]
• Shahriar Shahriari , Chair, department of Mathematics, Pomona College. [132]
• Majid Mirmehdi , of The University of Bristol. Associate Editor of Pattern Aanalysis and Applications Journal.[133]
• Abbas Edalat of Imperial College. [134]
• Reza Abbaschian , Vice President of ASM International ; the largest materials society in USA. 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. [135]
• Esfandiar Maasoumi of Southern Methodist University. Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.[136]
• Mostafa Ronaghi , Senior Research Associate, Stanford University [137]
• Ali Rezazadeh , Head of Microwave Engineering Research Group and Director of the Electromagnetics Centre, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. [138]
• Morteza Monte Mehrabadi , Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tulane University.[139]
• Jafar Saniie , Director of the Ultrasonic Information Processing Laboratory, Illinois Institute of Technology.[140]
• Mohammad Shahidehpour , Former Dean of the Graduate College and Associate VP for Research at Illinois Institute of Technology. [141]
• Nader Sadegh of Georgia Tech, Associate Editor of Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control. [142]
• Houchang Hassan-Yari , Head of Politics and Economics Department, Royal Military College of Canada. [143]
• Iraj Eshraghi , Director of the Petroleum Engineering Program in Chemical Engineering Dept, University of Southern California. [144]
• Nader Shooshtari , Chair, Dept. of Management & Marketing, University of Montana. [145]
• Shahram Latifi of UNLV. IEEE Fellow, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers.[146]
• Shahriar Mobashery of The University of Notre Dame. Distinguished Professor. [147]
• Nasser Kanani , Head of Materials Science Dept, Technical University of Berlin. [148]
• Jafar Arkani-Hamed of McGill University. Director of Research, NASA group Achievement Award, 1985. [149][150][151]
• 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. [152]
• Mohammad Torabi , Member of Indiana University Alliance of Distinguished Rank Professors. Chancellor's Professor and Chairperson. [153]
• Mohammad Modarres of the University of Maryland, College Park. Distinguished Scholar Award, 1995. Fellow, American Nuclear Society. [154][155]
• Shapour Azarm of the University of Maryland, College Park. Westinghouse Professorship (1989); Proctor & 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). [156]
• Parviz Ansari , Chair of Physics Department, Seton Hall University. [157]
• Mehrdad Negahban , Director of Graduate Program, Eng. Mechanics Dept, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. [158]
• Ali Niknejad of UC Berkeley, Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Co-Director of BSIM Project. [159][160]
• Reza Soleymani , Director, Graduate Program, Concordia University. [161]
• Yusef Shayan , Associate Chair, EEC Dept, Concordia University. [162]
• Mojtaba Kahrizi , Director, Graduate Program (M.Eng) & Director Professional Development Programs, Concordia University. [163]
• Ali Eskandarian , Associate Dean of the College of Professional Studies at George Washington University. [164]
• Hossain Heydari , Director, Information Security Program at James Madison University. [165]
• Samad Hedayat , Distinguished Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago. [166]
• Khosrow Behbehani , Director of Biomedical Engineering Dept, University of Texas at Arlington. [167]
• Ali Danesh , Director of Research at The Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University. [168]
• Faramarz Gordaninejad , Director of Composite and Intelligent Materials Laboratory, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. [169][170]
• Farzad Rahnema , Associate Chair of The Woodruff School, and Chair of Nuclear Engineering Program at Georgia Institute of Technology. [171]
• Farokh Bastani , Director, Embedded Software Center, University of Texas at Dallas. [172][173]
• Mohsen Meydani , Director, Vascular Biology Laboratory, and Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA Senior Scientist at Tufts University. [174]
• Saed Mirzadeh , Senior Research & Development Staff, Nuclear Medicine Program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. [175]
• Reza Dabestani , Research Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Senior Staff Fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. [176]
• Camran Nezhat , Director, Stanford Endoscopy Center for Training & Technology, Stanford University. [177]
• Amir Rostami , Chairman, Dept of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University.[178]
• Ahmad Hosseini , Dean, School of Business and Economics, Sonoma State University. [179]
• Mohammad Ala , California State University, Los Angeles Outstanding Professor, Director of CSU-LA Productivity Center. [180]
• Bahram Ravani , former Chair of the Department Mechanical Engineering, UC Davis. [181]
• 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. [182]
• Nader Saniei , Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. [183]
• Majid Molki of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Associate Editor of Heat Transfer Engineering. [184]
• Abdollah Ferdowsi , Distinguished Professor, College of Business, Ferris State University. [185]
• Mohsen Kavehrad , W. L. Weiss (AMERITECH) Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University. [186]
• Mohammad Heydari-Malayeri of the NASA Hubble Heritage Project . [187]
• 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. [188]
• Mohammad H. Hosni , Department Head and the Frankenhoff Chair in Engineering, Kansas State University. [189][190]
• Theodore Farabee , ASME Fellow.[191]
• Morteza Gharib of Caltech. Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering, Director of Measurements Lab.[192][193]
• Iraj Parchamazad , Chair of Chemistry Department, University of LaVerne . [194]
• Amir K. Khandani , NSERC-Nortel Networks Research Chair, and Director of Coding and Signal Transmission Laboratory, University of Waterloo. [195]
• 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. [196]
• Reza M. Khanbilvardi , Director of ICERD, The City College of New York,[197]
• Dr. A. Hoodashtian , Director of the Montreal International School of Management , based in Montreal, Canada. [198]
• 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. [199]
• 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. [200][201][202]
• Muhammad Sahimi , Chairman, Chemical Engineering Dept, University of Southern California. [203]
• Saeid Rahimi , Dean, School of Science and Technology, Sonoma State University [204]
• Soheil Nazarian , Director of Center for Highway Materials Research, University of Texas at El Paso.[205]
• Bijan Safai , Chairman, Department of Dermatology, New York Medical College.[206]
• Vartan Gregorian , President of The Carnegie Corporation of New York .[207]
• Touradj Ebrahimi , Distinguished Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - EPFL.[208]
• Ali Haghani , Chair, Dept of Civil Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. [209]

See also

• List of Iranian scientists from the pre-modern era.

External links

• Another comprehensive list