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 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 Puya Vahabi, Professor/Lecturer of AI at the University of California, Berkeley 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 (RISE) 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 (IISA), 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 See also List of Iranian scientists from the pre-modern era List of Iranian mathematicians Science and technology in Iran List of universities in Iran Higher education in Iran List of Iranian Research Centers International rankings of Iran in science and technology Brain drain in Iran, the world's highest in 2006 References Scientists, Contemporary Iranian Iranian