65 Notable alumni of
Sharif University of Technology
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The Sharif University of Technology is 757th in the world, 152nd in Asia, and 3rd in Iran by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 65 notable alumni from the Sharif University of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ali Daei
- Enrolled in the Sharif University of Technology
- Studied materials science
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football managerbusinesspersonentrepreneur
- Biography
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Ali Daei is an Iranian football manager and former professional footballer. A striker, he was the captain of the Iranian national team between 2000 and 2006. He played in the German Bundesliga for Arminia Bielefeld, Bayern Munich and Hertha Berlin. He is regarded as one of the greatest Iranian footballers of all time as well as one of the greatest footballers from Asia.
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Maryam Mirzakhani
- Enrolled in the Sharif University of Technology
- Studied in 1999
- Occupations
- topologistuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. On 13 August 2014, Mirzakhani was honored with the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, becoming the first woman to win the prize, as well as the first Iranian. The award committee cited her work in "the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces". Mirzakhani was considered a leading force in the fields of hyperbolic geometry, topology and dynamics.
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Maryam Rajavi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Maryam Rajavi is an Iranian dissident politician and the leader of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK), an organization advocating the overthrow of the Iranian government, and president-elect of its National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). She is married to Massoud Rajavi, who is the co-leader of MEK.
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Ali Larijani
- Occupations
- politicianphilosopher
- Biography
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Ali Ardeshir Larijani is an Iranian politician and former military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Iran from 2008 to 2020. He has been a member of the Expediency Discernment Council since 2020, having previously served from 1997 to 2008. Larijani filed for candidacy in the 2024 presidential election, but was ultimately disqualified. He previously ran in 2005, but was disqualified from running in 2021.
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Adel Ferdosipour
- Occupations
- translatorfilm producertelevision presenterjournalistpresenter
- Biography
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Adel Ferdosipour is an Iranian journalist, football commentator, translator, university professor, and television show host and producer. He was the host and producer of the popular TV show Navad. He is a producer of the popular TV show Football 120 and supervisor of Football 360.
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Eshaq Jahangiri
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Eshaq Jahangiri Kouhshahi is an Iranian politician who served as the sixth first vice president from 2013 until 2021 in Hassan Rouhani's government. Jahangiri was the minister of industries and mines from 1997 to 2005 under President Mohammad Khatami. Before that, he was the governor of Isfahan Province. He was also a member of Parliament for two terms.
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Rostam Qasemi
- Occupations
- military personnelpolitician
- Biography
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Rostam Ghasemi was an Iranian military officer and conservative politician who was the Minister of Roads and Urban Development from 25 August 2021 to 22 November 2022. He was Minister of Petroleum from 3 August 2011 to 15 August 2013.
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Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan
- Occupations
- inventorphysicistchemist
- Biography
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Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was an Iranian nuclear scientist who was assassinated in 2012. He was also deputy of commerce at the Natanz nuclear power plant.
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Mehrdad Bazrpash
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mehrdad Bazrpash is an Iranian principlist politician, and the former Minister of Roads and Urban Development from 2022 to 2024. He was also the President of the Supreme Audit Court from 2020 to 2022.
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Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani is an Iranian businessman and the fourth child of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former president of Iran. He is known as an Iranian "Aghazadeh".
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Ashraf Rabiei
- Enrolled in the Sharif University of Technology
- Studied physics
- Occupations
- partisan
- Biography
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Ashraf Rabiei was an Iranian guerrilla and member of the People's Mojahedin of Iran (MEK).
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Sorena Sattari
- Occupations
- politiciandocent
- Biography
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Sorena Sattari is an Iranian scientist, inventor. He was the vice president of science and technology, under President Hassan Rouhani and Ebrahim Raisi from 2013 to 2022.
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Mohammad Ali Najafi
- Occupations
- mathematicianpolitician
- Biography
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Mohammad-Ali Najafi is an Iranian mathematician and reformist politician who was the Mayor of Tehran, serving in the post for eight months, until April 2018. He held cabinet portfolios during the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s. He is also a retired professor of mathematics at Sharif University of Technology.
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Majid Sharif Vaghefi
- Occupations
- partisan
- Biography
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Majid Sharif-Vaghefi was an Iranian dissident political figure and leading member of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) who was assassinated in an internal purge staged by the MEK Marxist faction. One of the three members of the MEK's central committee from 1972 to 1975, he was considered the leader of the group's Islamist faction that refused to accept Marxism.
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Mohsen Sazegara
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Mohsen Sazegara is an Iranian journalist and pro-democracy political activist. He was the founder of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. He held several offices in the government of Mir Hossein Mousavi. He applied to become a candidate for President of Iran in the 2001 election but was declined.
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Mohammad-Javad Larijani
- Occupations
- historianpolitician
- Biography
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Mohammad-Javad Ardeshir Larijani is an Iranian conservative politician and former diplomat. He is currently a top adviser to the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in foreign affairs and secretary of High Council for Human rights, Judiciary of Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Reza Amirkhani
- Occupations
- writeressayistnovelistteacher
- Biography
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Reza Amirkhani is a contemporary Iranian novelist.
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Mohammad Eslami
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mohammad Eslami is the Vice President and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization in the government of President Raisi and was the Minister of Roads and Urban development and the Governor of Mazandaran in the government of Hassan Rouhani.
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Parviz Fattah
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sayyid Parviz Fattah is an Iranian conservative politician and former member of the Revolutionary Guard. He has been head of the Execution of Imam Khomeini's Order since 2023.
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Kamal Sarabandi
- Occupations
- writeressayistscientist
- Biography
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Kamal Sarabandi is an Iranian-American scientist and the Fawwaz T. Ulaby Distinguished University Professor of EECS and the Rufus S. Teesdale endowed Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he teaches and conducts research on the science and technology of microwave and millimeter wave radar remote sensing, wireless technology, electromagnetic wave propagation and scattering, metamaterials, antenna miniaturization, and nano antennas.
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Ramin Mehmanparast
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Ramin Mehmanparast is an Iranian diplomat, the former spokesman of the Iranian foreign ministry and the former ambassador to Poland and Lithuania. He was the deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, the head of the "Center for Public Diplomacy & Media" and the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 31 October 2009 until his resignation on 11 May 2013. He was also the ambassador of Iran to Thailand from 1996 to 2000 and Kazakhstan from 2004 to 2009.
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Fazel Larijani
- Occupations
- physicistpolitician
- Biography
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Fazel Ardeshir Larijani is an Iraqi born-Iranian politician and academic. He is best known in Iran for his core involvement in the corruption allegations publicly announced by then president in the Majlis.
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Akbar Torkan
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Akbar Torkan was an Iranian mechanical engineer and politician, who was the President Hassan Rouhani's chief adviser from 2013 to 2018. He was the CEO of Iran's Construction Engineering Organization from 2014 to 2017. He was also the Minister of Defense and Minister of Roads and Transportation in the government headed by President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
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Hassan Shariatmadari
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistIslamic jurist
- Biography
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Hassan Shariatmadari is an Iranian opposition politician and a leading proponent of the Free Elections Movement (Jonbeshe Entekhabate Azad) in Iran. He is the son of Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Kazem Shariatmadari (one of the most powerful Shia clerics of Iran in the 1960s and 70s). During the Pahlavi regime, he supported his father's position that the Shah's authority should be limited to what had been specified in the Constitutional revolution of 1906 and that a democratic parliament should be in charge of running the country instead of the monarchy taking an active role in ruling Iran. Between 1973 and 1980 he served as the Chief Editor of Payame Shadi and Nasle Now monthly magazines for children and youth.
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Foad Mostafa Soltani
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Foad Mostafa Soltani was one of the founders of the Revolutionary Organisation of the Toilers of Kurdistan, popularly known as Komala.
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Mohammad Ali Afshani
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Seyyed Mohammad-Ali Afshani is an Iranian politician who was the mayor of Tehran from May to November 2018. Afshani was elected Mayor by the Islamic City Council of Tehran on 13 May 2018, with 19 out of 21 votes in favor, succeeding the interim mayor Samiollah Hosseini Makarem on 16 May. He was previously the governor of Fars province from 17 July 2015 to 13 September 2017.
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Masoud Nili
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Masoud Nili is an Iranian academic and economist. He was an economic advisor to President Hassan Rouhani from 2013 to 2017, and was his economical aide from 2017 to 2018.
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Morteza Alviri
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Morteza Alviri is an Iranian politician who served as Mayor of Tehran from 1999 to 2001.
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Marzieh Afkham
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Marzieh Afkham is an Iranian diplomat who served as the ambassador to Malaysia for four years.
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Ali Khatir
- Born in
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Iran - Occupations
- sporting director
- Biography
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Ali Ahmadi Khatir is a sports manager from Iran who is currently the chief executive officer of F.C. Nassaji Mazandaran. He was elected as the acting CEO of Esteghlal F.C. on July 17, 1402, and was dismissed from the position of CEO on May 12, 1403. Also, in 1401, he was the vice-chairman of Tractor S.C. board of directors and the former sports deputy of Esteghlal and at one point he was the executive deputy of the general secretary of the Iran Football Federation.
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Mohsen Vezvaei
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Major General Mohsen Vezvaei was an Iranian military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and military figure in the Iran-Iraq War. He was also involved in street protests against the Shah of Iran, and later participated in the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis.
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Kioumars Hashemi
- Occupations
- managerpolitician
- Biography
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Kioumars Hashemi is an Iranian executive chairman, who was the former Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports from 2023 to 2024. He also served as President of the National Olympic Committee of Iran, from 2014 to 2018.
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Mohammad Atrianfar
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Mohammad Atrianfar is an Iranian journalist and reformist politician, currently the head of the "Policymaking Council" of the daily newspaper Shargh. He is a member of the Executives of Construction Party. Atrianfar has a degree in petroleum processing engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and was a senior political advisor to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
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Peyman Yazdanian
- Occupations
- composermusicianpianist
- Biography
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Peyman Yazdanian is an Iranian pianist and music composer. He has written over forty pieces for solo piano and has composed for both national and foreign feature films. He wrote original soundtracks for plays and multimedia.
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Alireza Afshar
- Occupations
- mechanical engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Alireza Afshar is an Iranian military officer. He served as the political deputy to the Minister of Interior, being appointed in August 2007. In this capacity, he served as head of Country's Election Headquarters during 2008 Iranian legislative election.
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Ali Asghar Monesan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ali Asghar Mounesan is an Iranian politician and a former minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts.He was appointed on 13 August 2017 by President Hassan Rouhani.
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Mahmoud Fotouhi Firouzabad
- Occupations
- faculty member
- Biography
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Mahmoud Fotouhi Firouzabad is the former president of Sharif University of Technology, serving from 28 August 2014 to 18 October 2021.
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Elshan Moradi
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
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Elshan Moradi Abadi is an Iranian-American chess grandmaster.
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Majid Sharif
- Years
- 1950-1998 (aged 48)
- Occupations
- translatoressayistwriterjournalistlinguist
- Biography
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Majid Sharif was an Iranian translator and journalist who was one of the victims of the Chain murders of Iran. He was a follower of the late Islamist modernist leftist theoretician Ali Shariati. Articles by him criticizing Iranian government policies appeared in a monthly magazine, Iran-e Farda (Iran of Tomorrow), which was closed down by court order on December 5, 1998.
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Hamid Naderi Yeganeh
- Occupations
- artistdesignermathematician
- Biography
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Hamid Naderi Yeganeh is an Iranian mathematical artist and digital artist. He is known for using mathematical formulas to create drawings of real-life objects, intricate and symmetrical illustrations, animations, fractals and tessellations. Naderi Yeganeh uses mathematics as the main tool to create artworks. Therefore, his artworks can be totally described by mathematical concepts. Mathematical concepts he uses in his work include trigonometric functions, exponential function, Fibonacci sequence, sawtooth wave, etc.
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Behdad Esfahbod
- Occupations
- programmer
- Biography
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Seyed Behdad Esfahbod MirHosseinZadeh Sarabi is an Iranian-Canadian software engineer and free software developer. He is best known for creating HarfBuzz. He was a software engineer at Facebook from February 2019 until July 1, 2020; before that he was a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google since 2010, and before that at Red Hat.
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Farinaz Koushanfar
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Farinaz Koushanfar is an Iranian-American computer scientist whose research concerns embedded systems, ad-hoc networks, and computer security. She is a professor and Henry Booker Faculty Scholar of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.
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Nasrin Soltankhah
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Nasrin Soltankhah is an Iranian politician who was a Vice President under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2009 to 2013.
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Marzieh Shah-Daei
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusinessperson
- Biography
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Marzieh Shah-Daei was the Deputy Minister of Petroleum from 2017 to 2019. As an Iranian engineer, she was the former Executive Director of National Petrochemical Company, as well as "Vice Minister of Petroleum on Petrochemical affairs" from 2016 to 2017.
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Alireza Sheikhattar
- Enrolled in the Sharif University of Technology
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in chemical engineering
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Alireza Sheikhattar is an Iranian diplomat and previous ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Berlin.
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Gholamreza Shafeie
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Gholamreza Shafeei is an Iranian politician, vice president of strategic monitoring and president of management and planning in the cabinet of Hassan Rouhani and former Ambassador of Iran to Russia.
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Hossein Qajeyi
- Occupations
- amateur wrestler
- Biography
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Hossein Qajeyi was an Iranian military commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and prominent military figure in the Iran-Iraq War. He was the founder of the IRGC's 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division and served as the division's first commander during the war.
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Roozbeh Pournader
- Biography
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Roozbeh Pournader is a free software activist and expert on Unicode text encoding, text rendering, and fonts, especially for bidirectional text. He is originally from Iran, and is now living in the United States. After the establishment of the Persian Wikipedia, he became the first administrator of the project. He was a major assistant, participant and co-founder of the Persian Wikipedia.
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Siavash Alamouti
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- academicinventor
- Biography
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Siavash Alamouti is an Iranian-born business executive, and entrepreneur. and electrical engineer. He is the Executive Vice President of Innovation R&D at Wells Fargo, and the executive chairman of Mimik Technology, Inc. He is known for the 1998 invention of the Alamouti's code, a type of space–time block code.
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Ali Mohammad Noorian
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ali Mohammad Noorian is an Iranian politician and academic who is the Secretary General of founding Islamic Azad University system.
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Mohammad Hajiaghayi
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi is a computer scientist known for his work in algorithms, game theory, social networks, network design, graph theory, and big data. He has over 200 publications with over 185 collaborators and 10 issued patents.
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Yasaman Farzan
- Occupations
- university teachermathematicianresearcherphysicist
- Biography
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Yasaman Farzan is an Iranian researcher. She is a faculty member of Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences.
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Gina Cody
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Gina Parvaneh Cody CM is a Canadian-Iranian engineer and business leader.
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Taha Yasseri
- Enrolled in the Sharif University of Technology
- Studied in 2002-2006
- Occupations
- physicistediting staff
- Biography
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Taha Yasseri is a physicist and sociologist known for his research on crowdsourcing, collective intelligence and computational social science. He is a full professor at the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is the inaugural Workday Chair of Technology and Society. He was formerly a professor of sociology at University College Dublin, a senior research fellow in computational social science at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford, a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute for data science and artificial intelligence, and a research fellow in humanities and social sciences at Wolfson College, Oxford. Yasseri is one of the leading scholars in computational social science and his research has been widely covered in mainstream media. Yasseri obtained his PhD in theoretical physics of complex systems at the age of 25 from the University of Göttingen, Germany.
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Sattar Mahmoudi
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Sattar Mahmoudi is an Iranian engineer, politician and former acting Minister of Energy of Iran, a position he has held from 20 August 2017 until 29 October 2017. He is also Vice Minister of Energy, a position he has held since 2014.
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Ramin Golestanian
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Ramin Golestanian is a professor at the Department of Physics and the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at Oxford University. He is a fellow of St Cross College and is affiliated with the Oxford Centre for Soft and Biological Matter. In 2014 he was awarded the Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize for his "pioneering contributions to the field of active soft matter, particularly microscopic swimmers and active colloids". In 2017 he was awarded the Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Lecture Prize. Ramin Golestanian is now director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, Germany, heading the department of Living Matter Physics.
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Mohammad Shahidehpour
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour is a prominent figure in the field of electrical engineering, currently serving as the Carl Bodine Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Illinois Institute of Technology. With over 300 technical papers and five books to his name, Shahidehpour has made significant contributions to electric power systems planning, operation, and control. His research has been instrumental in advancing the understanding of electricity restructuring and the integration of renewable energy sources into the power grid, making him a globally recognized expert in his field.
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Payam Heydari
- Enrolled in the Sharif University of Technology
- In 1992 graduated with Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering
- In 1995 graduated with Master of Science in electrical engineering
- Occupations
- academicelectrical engineer
- Biography
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Payam Heydari is an Iranian-American Professor who is noted for his contribution to the field of radio-frequency and millimeter-wave integrated circuits.
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Babak Hodjat
- Occupations
- computer scientistartificial intelligence researcher
- Biography
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Babak Hodjat is a British computer scientist, entrepreneur, and writer. He was the co-founder and CEO of Sentient Technologies and now holds the position of Chief Technology Officer AI at Cognizant. He is a specialist in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. In 1998 Hodjat co-founded Dejima Inc and served as CEO and CTO, his patented work on artificial intelligence led to the technology used by Apple for their digital assistant Siri.
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Elham Kashefi
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Elham Kashefi is a Professor of Computer Science and Personal Chair in quantum computing at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, and a Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) researcher at the Sorbonne University. She is known as one of the inventors of blind quantum computing. Her work has included contributions to quantum cryptography, verification of quantum computing, and cloud quantum computing.
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Azita Emami
- Born in
- Iran
- Occupations
- academicengineer
- Biography
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Azita Emami-Neyestanak is the Andrew and Peggy Cherng Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering at Caltech. Emami works on low-power mixed-mode circuits in scalable technologies. She is Executive Officer of the Department of Electrical Engineering and an investigator in the Heritage Medical Research Institute.
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Mohsen Emadi
- Occupations
- writertranslatorfilmmakerpoet
- Biography
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Mohsen Emadi is an Iranian-Mexican poet, translator and filmmaker. Born and raised in Iran, he left for Finland in 2009 and has resided primarily in Mexico since 2012, working as a lecturer and researcher in poetry and comparative literature for various institutes in the country.
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Reza Sadeghi
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Reza Sadeghi was an Iranian mathematician and Olympiad gold and silver medals winner. He is an alumnus of National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET).
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Fariborz Haghighat
- Occupations
- engineeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Fariborz Haghighat is an Iranian-Canadian academic, engineer and Distinguished Professor of Building, Civil & Environmental Engineering at Concordia University. Haghighat has a Concordia University Research Chair in Energy and Environment and he was Inducted into the Provost's Circle of Distinction in 2009.
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Salman A. Avestimehr
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Salman A. Avestimehr is a Dean's professor at the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Departments of University of Southern California, where he is the inaugural director of the USC-Amazon Center for Secure and Trusted Machine Learning and the director of the Information Theory and Machine Learning (vITAL) research lab. He is also the CEO and Co-Founder of FedML. Avestimehr's contributions in research and publications are in the areas of information theory, machine learning, large-scale distributed computing, and secure/private computing and learning. In particular, he is best known for deterministic approximation approaches to network information theory and coded computing. He was a general co-chair of the 2020 International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), and is a Fellow of IEEE. He is also co-authors of four books titled “An Approximation Approach to Network Information Theory”, “Multihop Wireless Networks: A Unified Approach to Relaying and Interference Management”, “Coded Computing”, and “Problem Solving Strategies for Elementary-School Math.”
