List of contemporary Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineers

A

• 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
• Abbas Amanat, professor of history and international studies at Yale University
• 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.
• 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
• Reza Amrollahi, Physicist and the former president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran

  B

• Mehdi Bahadori, professor of mechanical engineering
• Hossein Baharvand, professor of stem cell and developmental biology, and director of Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology
• 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, pioneer Iranian biologist
• Mina Bissell, director of UC Berkeley Life Sciences Division

  D

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

  E

• Abbas Edalat, professor of computer science and mathematics, Imperial College London
• Kamran Elahian, entrepreneur
• Kamran Eshraghian, VLSI pioneer in Australia

  F

• 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 in 2008, International Centre for Theoretical Physics Prize in 2013

  G

• Nasir Gebelli, computer scientist and video game developer
• Zoubin Ghahramani, professor of information engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
• Mohammed Ghanbari, professor, University of Essex
• Mehdi Golshani, professor, Sharif University of Technology
• Vartan Gregorian, president, Carnegie Corporation of New York

  H

• 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
• Babak Hassibi, professor of electrical engineering, Caltech
• Mahmoud Hessaby, physicist, father of modern physics in Iran
• Payam Heydari, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, University of California, Irvine
• Eric Hooglund, professor of political science

  I

• 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

  J

• Ali Jafari, professor of computer and information technology, Purdue University
• Hamid Jafarkhani, professor in electrical engineering and computer science, University of California, Irvine
• Ali Javan, physicist and inventor of the gas laser at MIT
• Kamaloddin Jenab, pioneering physicist

  K

• Naser Kamalian, medical scholar and the father of modern neuropathology in Iran
• 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 officer, Barclays
• Omid Kordestani, senior vice president of worldwide sales and field operations, Google
• Farinaz Koushanfar, Henry Booker Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego ; Director of the Center for Machine Intelligence and Security at UCSD
• Farhad Khorasheh, scientist, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

  L

• Caro Lucas, scientist; professor and founding director of the Center of Excellence for Control and Intelligent Processing, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran; researcher at the School of Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Tehran
• Afsanehsadat Larimi, scientist; Professor of Chemical Engineering, Niroo Research Institute

  M

• Esfandiar Maasoumi, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, Southern Methodist University
• Iraj Malekpour, professor of space physics
• Alireza Mashaghi, professor of systems biomedicine and physics, Leiden University and Harvard University
• Abbas Milani, director of Iranian Studies Program, Stanford University
• Farzaneh Milani, director of studies in women and gender, University of Virginia
• Maryam Mirzakhani, mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, and first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal
• Parviz Moin, Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
• Ali Montazeri, public health scientist at the Health Metrics Research Center of the Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research
• Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of 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

  N

• 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 of Stanford Endoscopy Center for Training & Technology, Stanford University
• Mehrdad Nikoonahad, vice president of business development, PDF Solutions, Inc.

  O

• Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay

  P

• 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
• Flora Peyvandi, Flora Peyvandi, MD, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine, Director of the Angelo Bianchi Bonomi Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy,

  R

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

  S

• 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
• Cyrus Shahabi, chair of the Computer Science Department, University of Southern California
• Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, lecturer in Achaemenid archeology and Iranology at 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
• Manuchehr Shahrokhi, Craig Fellow/professor, editor of the 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
• Saeed Shirkavand, former vice minister in Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance, 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; professor of electrical and computer engineering, University of Tehran
• Saba Soomekh, professor of religious studies and Middle Eastern history at UCLA, and author of books and articles on contemporary and historical Iranian Jewish culture
• Abdolkarim Soroush, philosopher

  T

• Amir Tahmasbi, wireless platform architect, Apple Inc.
• Kamran Talattof, professor, University of Arizona
• Vahid Tarokh, professor, Harvard University

  V

• Cumrun Vafa, physicist, Harvard University
• Saba Valadkhan, biomedical scientist; assistant professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University

  Y

• 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 of Rensselaer Initiative in Systems Engineering

  Z

• 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, 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, professor at Tehran University
• Behbood B. Zoghi, Chair Professor and Director, Masters of Engineering Technical Management, Texas A&M University