Behnaam Aazhang .(born December 7, 1957) is the J.S. Abercrombie Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and Director of the Rice Neuroengineering Initiative. Early life and education Aazhang was born in Bandar-Anzali, Iran, and attended Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran from 1975 until 1978. He moved to the United States in…
Parisa Tabriz Is an Iranian-American computer security expert who works for Google as a Vice President of engineering. She chose the title “Security Princess” on her business card. Early life Parisa Tabriz was born to an Iranian father, a doctor, and an American mother, a nurse, of Polish-American descent.She grew up in the suburbs of Chicago…
Mohammed Mark Amin (Persian: محمد مارک امین) is an Iranian American motion picture producer, writer, director, and distributor who has been working in independent and mainstream cinema for more than two decades. Some of Amin’s film credits include The Prince and Me (2004), starring Julia Stiles, 1997’s Eve’s Bayou, starring Samuel L. Jackson, and 2002’s Frida, a biopic which…
Ali A. Kiafar holds a master’s degree in architecture and city planning from the National University of Iran and a Ph.D. In urban and regional planning from the University of Southern California. From 1980 on, Dr. Kiafar has taught at the University of Southern California and University of California –…
