Pierre Morad Omidyar (born Parviz Morad Omidyar, June 21, 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American billionaire. A technology entrepreneur, software engineer, and philanthropist, he is the founder of eBay, where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015. Omidyar and his wife Pamela founded Omidyar Network in 2004. As of 2023, Forbes ranked Omidyar as the 245th-richest person in the…
Hamid Naficy (Persian: حمید نفیسی; born 1944) is an Iranian-born American filmmaker, writer, scholar, and educator. He is the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University in the department of Radio/Film/Television, an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Art History, and a core member of the Middle East and North African Studies Program….
Nader Engheta (Persian: نادر انقطاع) (born 1955 in Tehran) is an Iranian–American scientist. He has made pioneering contributions to the fields of metamaterials, transformation optics, plasmonic optics, nanophotonics, graphene photonics, nano-materials, nanoscale optics, nano-antennas and miniaturized antennas, physics and reverse-engineering of polarization vision in nature, bio-inspired optical imaging, fractional paradigm in electrodynamics, and electromagnetics and microwaves. Background After earning a B.S. degree from…
Mohammad Javad Abdolmohammadi (Persian: محمد جواد عبدالمحمدی) is the John E. Rhodes Professor of Accounting at Bentley University, having held the position since 1988.In 2007, he was inducted into the Northeast Region of the American Accounting Association Hall of Fame (April 28, 2007). He has contributed to more than 100 publications, including many articles and books on internal auditing. He…
