Bobak Ferdowsi, Astronaut & Aerospace Engineer

Bobak Ferdowsi (Persian: بابک فردوسی, pronounced [baːˈbæk feɾdoːˈsiː]; born November 7, 1979) is a flight engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He served on the Cassini–Huygens and Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity missions. Ferdowsi gained brief media fame in August 2012 when, sporting a distinct mohawk hairstyle, he was repeatedly visible on camera during the televised Curiosity landing. His appearance became an iconic image of the event with…

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Fariba Fahroo Ph.D ,An Iranian American Scientific Researcher

Fariba Fahroo is an American Iranian mathematician, a program manager at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and a former program manager at the Defense Sciences Office. Along with I. M. Ross, she has published papers in pseudospectral optimal control theory. The Ross–Fahroo lemma and the Ross–Fahroo pseudospectral method are named after her. In 2010, she received…

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Azita Emami Ph.D,Professor of Electrical Engineering

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. Early life and education Emami was born…

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Michael Chegini, PhD, PE, SE, A.AIA-Esteemed member of community

Dr. Michael Chegini, PhD, PE, SE, A.AIA Chief Executive Officer, Founder and President In the early 2000s, Dr. Michael Chegini of Owen Group, Inc., an award-winning architectural and engineering and Plan Review service firm based in Los Angeles, California, commonly had forklifts beep their way through the double-door entrance of…

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