hydrogeology; expertise: theories of porous media (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) 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 (UCSD); Director of the Center for Machine Intelligence and Security (MICS) at UCSD L Caro Lucas, scientist; professor and founding director of the Center of Excellence for Control and Intelligent Processing (CIPCE), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran; researcher at the School of Cognitive Sciences (SCS), Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran 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 Minoo Mohraz, physician, researcher, infectious diseases specialist, AIDS specialist, professor at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences. 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