Contents

1 A 2 B 3 D 4 E 5 G 6 H 7 J 8 K 9 M 10 N 11 O 12 R 13 S 14 T 15 V 16 Z

A

• Bijan Aalami , Founder of Adapt Software Group. [1]
• Bizhan Aarabi , Director of Neurotrauma. University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine.[2]
• Lily Afshar, female classical guitarist
• Andre Agassi, tennis player
• Shohreh Aghdasholou, actress and Academy Award nominee
• Jonathan Ahdout, actor
• Nima Arkani-Hamed, physicist from Harvard
• Christiane Amanpour, CNN Chief international corespondent
• Goli Ameri, Republican candidate of U.S. House from the 1st district of Oregon
• Anousheh Ansari, entrepreneur and contributer to X Prize foundation
• Mohammad Ashrafzadeh , Director Emeritus, Boston University Medical Center [3]

B

• Rudi Bakhtiar, CNN Lead news anchor
• Catherine Bell, actress
• Hamid Berenji , NASA senior research scientist. [4]
• Mina Bissel , Director of UC Berkeley Life Sciences Division. [5]

D

• Deep Dish, dance music group
• George Deukmejian, former governor of California

E

• Mory Ejabat , Chairman, Co-founder of Zhone Technologoies. [6]
• Kamran Elahian , entrepreneur
• Hossein Eslambolchi , AT&T's Chief Technology Officer and the President of Bell Labs. [7]

G

• Reza Ghaffarian , NASA senior research scientist. [8]
• Shahram Ghandeharizadeh , Director of the database laboratory at University of Southern California.[9]

H

• Samad Hayati , NASA project manager. [10]

J

• Mo Jamshidi, NASA senior scientist.[11]
• Ali Javan, physicist and inventor of Laser
• Ali Jafari , Director, CyberLab, Purdue University. [12]

K

• Omid Kordestani , Senior Vice President of Google
• Shaygan Kheradpir , Chief Information Officer, Verizon Communications. [13]
• Mehran Kardar , physicist, MIT. [14]

M

• Reza Mahdavi , Senior Vice President of Cisco
• Ross Mirkarimi, Member of San Francisco City Council from the Green Party
• Mohsen Moazami , VP of Internet Business Solutions Group Cisco Systems.[15]
• Nader Modanlo , Chairman of Final Analysis Communication Services, Inc.[16]
• Parviz Moin , Director and Senior Scientist, Stanford University. [17]
• Patricia L. Mokhtarian , Associate Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis. [18]

N

• Firouz Naderi , NASA director of Mars project
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr, philosopher, George Washington University.
• Zod Nazem , CTO of Yahoo! [19]
• Sia Nemat-Nasser , Director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials, UCSD. [20]
• Simin Nikbin Meydani , Senior Scientist and Director at Tufts University. [21]
• Mehrdad Nikoonahad , Vice President of Technology for Strategic Business Development, KLA-Tencor Corporation. [22]

O

• Pierre Omidyar, Founder of e-Bay. [23]

R

• Manijeh Razeghi , Director, Center for Quantum Devices, Northwestern University. [24]

S

• Hamed Shahbazi , Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of infotouch Inc. [25]

T

• Azadeh Tabazadeh , Stanford University scientist from NASA. [26] Article about her in TIME magazine

V

• Cumrun Vafa, String theorist in Harvard

Z

• Lotfi Zadeh, creator of fuzzy logic and fuzzy set