IranMathGrads

Trajectory of Iranian Math Graduate Students
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 * Please help complete this list of People who did an undergraduate degree in Iran and a graduate degree elsewhere, as accurately as possible. The full names are listed in chronological order of completing the PhD in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or Computer Science (re-arrange the line if you correct the graduation year). Please feel free to add names or correct errors using the edit tab above. A separate section for PhD minors will be added soon.

Formatting guide: The names, graduation years, and Tenure Track or Tenure positions are in boldface, current position is in italic, .... for unknown current position. The institutions are separated by semi-colons. The numbers preceding names indicate undergraduate entrance year in Iran (Jalali Calendar). Please include advisor's name.

Abbreviations: TT: Tenure-Track, T: Tenure, U: University, CS Computer Science, AP Applied Math., St Statistics

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Mohammadreza Derafsheh: U. Birmingham (PhD, 1978, ?); Univ. Tehran --T

Firooz Khosraviyani: U. Wales (PhD, 1981, ?); Texas-AM-international --T

Shahla Marvizi Ahdout: MIT (PhD, 1981, ?); Long Island U. --T

1983

Saeed Ghahramani: (Berkeley, Ronald Wolff); Western New England College --T

Yousef Bahrampour: (U. Oregon, ?); U. Kerman --T

1984

Elizabeth Ebrahimzadeh: (Berkeley, ?); CalState Sacramento --T

1985

Aliasghar Alikhani-Koopaei: (UCSB, ?); Penn State Berks --T

1986

Naser Hosseini: (U. Miami, ?); U. Kerman --T

1987

1988

Pirooz Vakili: (Harvard, Yu-Chi Ho); Boston U., Manufacturing Engineering --T

Ali Rejali: (U. Sheffield, ?); U. Isfahan --T

Ali Asghar Jodayree Akbarfam: (U. Ottawa, ?); Tabriz U. --T

1989

Fraydoun Rezakhanlou: : (NYU, Varadhan); UC Berkeley --T

1990

Bizhan Zangeneh: (UBC, John Walsh); Sharif --T

Mohsen Maesoumi Fakhar: (NYU, ?); Lamar U. --T

19991

Masoud Khalkhali: (Dalhousie, Peter Fillmore); U. Western Ontario --T

Abdolreza Shadi Tahvildarzadeh: (NYU, Jalal Shatah); U. Michigan(91-93); IAS (93-94); Princeton U (94-00); Rutgers --T

1992-1993

CULTURAL REVOLUTION GAP

1994

??-Hossein Torabi Tehrani: (NYU, Louis Nirenberg); U.Nevada Las Vegas --T

??-Mojtaba Moniri: (U.Minnesota, Karel Prikry); Tarbiat Modarress U. --T

1995

??-Mohammad Ardeshir: (Marquette U., W. Ruitenberg); Sharif --T

1996

??-Hamidreza Farhadi: (U Manitoba, F. Ghahramani); Sharif --TT

1997

??-Amir Akbary: (U Toronto, Kumar Murty); U. of Lethbridge --TT

??-Hamidreza Fanai; (U. Joseph Fourier Grenoble, Gerard Besson); Sharif --TT

??-Mohammad Taghi Jahandideh: (Dalhousie, Heydar Radjavi); '''Isfahan U. Tech. --TT'''

??-Rajabali Kamyabi-Gol: (U. Alberta, Anthony Lau); Ferdowsi U. Mashad --T

??-Gholamhossein Eslamzadeh: (U. Alberta, ?); Shiraz U. --T

1998

??-Samad Ahmadi: (U. Kent Canterbury, ?); De Monfort U. --TT

??-Masoud Amini: (UIUC, ?); Tarbiat Modarress U. --T

??-Hassan Daghigh: (McGill, Henri Darmon); U. Kashan --TT

??-Mehdi Hosseini-Nasab: (U Wisconsin, Madison, Sigrun Andradottir); AT&T

??-Shahin Ajoodani-Namini: (Caltech, Richard Wilson); Parametric Tech. Corp, Boston; ...

67-Hessam Hamidi Tehrani: (Columbia U., Joan Birman); UC Santa Barbara; MSU; J.P. Morgan Chase

69-Arash Rastegar: (Princeton U., Andrew Wiles); Sharif --TT

69-Ali Rajaei: (Princeton U., Andrew Wiles); McGill; ...

1999

??-Saeed Zakeri: (SUNY Stony Brook, John Milnor); UPenn; SUNY SB;  CUNY, Queens College --TT

??-Kambiz Mahmoudian: (U Toronto, Kumar Murty); Sharif --TT (2000-2007)

??-Ali Shokoufandeh: (Rutgers-CS, Sven Dickinson/Endre Szemerédi); Drexel --T

??-Alireza Ranjbar Motlagh: (NYU, Jeff Cheeger); ND Stete U(99-00); UFMG, Brazil (00-01); Sharif --TT

68-Shahriar Mokhtari-Sharghi: (Columbia U., Hyman Bass); Long Island University --T

70-Payman L Kassaei: (MIT, Steven Kleiman); MSU; Brandeis; McGill; U London, King's College --TT

2000

67-Pedram Safari: (Columbia U., John Morgan); IPM (2001-2004); ICTP, Italy (2004-2005); Harvard (2006-present)

69-Mehrzad Ajoodanian: (Columbia U., John Morgan); Brandeis; MSU; '''CUNY Tech. --TT'''

70-Mahdi Asgari: (Purdue, Shahidi); U. Michigan Ann Arbor; Fields Institute; IAS; Oklahoma State U. --TT

70-Mohammadreza Pakzad: (ENS de Cachan, Tristan Riviere); MPI-Leipzig; UBC; U. Pittsburgh --TT

70-Behrang Noohi: (MIT, Steven Kleiman); UBC; UWO; MPI-Bonn; Florida State University (2006-present)

2001

??-Ali Lashgari Faghani: (U. Zurich, ?); ...

??-Reza Akbarpour: (U Western Ontario, Khalkhali); ...

??-Javad Mashreghi: (McGill, Victor Havin); Universite Lavale --TT

68-Mahmdoud Zeinalian: (CUNY, Dennis Sullivan); Oklahoma U (01-02); Long Island U. --TT

71-Ramin Takloo-Bighash: (Johns Hopkins, Joseph Shalika); Princeton (01-07); UIC --TT

71-Kasra Rafi: (SUNY Stony Brook, Minsky); UCSB (01-04); U Conn (04-07); MSRI; U. Chicago (2008)

72-Hossein Movasati: (IMPA, Alcides Lins Neto); Ochanomizu U, Japan; MPI-Bonn; IMPA

2002

??-Mehdi Sangani Monfared: U Alberta, Anthony Lau); U Windsor --TT

??-Ramin Mohammadalikhani: (U Toronto, Lisa Jeffrey); U.Montreal; free-lance film-maker

??-Bamdad Yahaghi: (Dalhousie, Heydar Radjavi); IPM (2005-present)

??-Roozbeh Hazrat: (Uni Bielefeld, Anthony Bak); MPI-Bonn; ANU; Queens U. Belfast

71-Kiumars Kaveh: (U. Toronto, Khovanskii); UBC (02-06); U. Toronto (2006-present)

71-Reza Chamanara: (CUNY, Linda Keen); Indiana U; SUNY Stony; CUNY Brooklyn College --TT

72-Ali Tahzibi: (IMPA, Jacob Palis); USP Sao Carlos, Brazil --TT

72-Saeed Salehi Purmehr: (Poland, Zofia Adamowicz); (U Turku, PhD, Magnus Steinby); IASBS Zanjan; U Turku (2007-present)

2003

??-Bahram Rangipour: (U. Western Ontario, Khalkhali); U. Victoria; Ohio State U.; U New Brunswick --T

??-Majid Hosseini: (Purdue, Burgess David); SUNY New Paltz --TT

71-Elham Kashefi: (London Imperial College -CS, ?); Oxford; Waterloo; Edinburgh Informatics

71-Amir Jafari: (Brown, Goncharov); NWU (03-04); IAS (04-05); Duke (05-07); ...

71-Hossein Abbaspour: (CUNY, Dennis Sullivan); Ecole Polytechnique; U. Lille; MPI-Bonn; U. Nantes --TT

72-Leila Khatami: (U of Tehran, Siamak Yassemi); Sharif (2003); ICTP, Italy (04-05); Harvard (06-07); Northeastern (since 2008)

72-Parham Salehyan: (IMPA, Eduardo Esteves); UNESP, Brazil --TT

74-Roya Beheshti Zavareh: (MIT, deJong); MPI-Bonn (03-04); Queen's U.(04-06); MSRI (06-07); WUSTL --TT

2004

??-Mohammadreza Raoofi: (Indiana U., ?); ...

??-Alireza Sarveniazi: (Georg-August Universitat Gottingen, Ulrich Stuhler); ''Uni. Bielefeld''

??-Amir Togha: (GWU., Ali Enayat); CUNY, Bronx college --TT

??-Faranak Pahlevani: (U. Pittsburgh, William J. Layton); ...

71-Fereydoun Nouri: (CUNY, Dennis Sullivan); CUNY, Bronx College --TT

71-Delaram Kahrobaei: (CUNY, Baumslag); U St Andrews, UK (04-06); CUNY Tech --TT

71-Reza Naserasr: (SFU, Pavol Hell); Carleton

72-Seyyed Mohammad Gholamzadeh Mahmoodi: (France-?); Sharif --TT

72-Mohammad Mahdian: (MIT-CS, Daniel Spielman/Michael Goemans); Microsoft Research (04-06); ''Yahoo! Research'' (2006-present)

73-Milad Niqui: (Nijmegen-CS, ?); ''Radboud Uni. Nihmegen''

74-Abbas Moameni: (Sharif, Hesaraki); UBC (04-07); Queens U (2007-present)

74-Maryam Mirzakhani: (Harvard, McMullen); Princeton U./Clay Fellowship (2004-present)

76-Eaman Eftekhary: (Princeton, Zoltan Szabo); Harvard (04-07); IPM (2007-present)

2005

??-Kamran Reihani: (Tarbiat Modarres, Alireza Medghalchi); MPIM (2004); U Oslo (2004-2006); NTNU, Norway (2007); Arizona State U (since 2007)

69-Mahdi Majidi-Zolbanin: (CUNY, Szpiro); UI Springfield --TT

71-Chekad Sarami: (Michigan Tech, ?); Fayetteville State U. --TT

73-Alireza Bahraini: (France, ?); Sharif --TT

74-Kia Dalili: (Rutgers, Vasconcelos); Dalhousie (05-07); U Missouri Columbia (2007-present)

74-Hossein Namazi: (SUNY Stony Brook, Minsky); Princeton U. (2005-present)

74-Mohammad Javaheri: (SUNY Stony Brook, Michael Anderson); U Oregon (2005-present)

74-Hadi Jorati: (Princeton, Elias Stein); UBC (05-07); U. Helsinki (2007-present)

74-Mahta Khosravi: (McGill, John Toth); IAS (2005-2007); JHU (2007-present)

74-Shahram Biglari: (Uni Leipzig, Annette Huber); ''Uni. Bielefeld'' (2005-present)

74-Ebrahim Samei: (U. Manitoba, F. Ghahramani); Waterloo

75-Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi: (MIT-CS, Erik Demaine/Tom Leighton); CMU (05-07); AT&T Research (2007-present)

76-Vahab Mirrokni: (MIT-CS, Michael Goemans); Amazon Research (05-06); Microsoft Research (2006-present)

76-Hadi Salmasian: (Yale, Roger Howe); Queen's U. (05-07); U. Alberta (2007-present)

78-Mazyar Mirrahimi: (Ecole Polytechnique/Ecole des Mines de Paris, Pierre Roucho/Gabriel Turinici); INRIA Rocquencourt (2006-present)

2006

69-Kourosh Tavakoli: (CUNY, Linda Keen); Lehman College, CUNY (2006-present)

72-Roshanak Roshandel (USC-CS, ?); Seattle U. CS dept --TT

74-Keivan Mallahi Karai: (Yale, Grigory Margulis); Jacobs U. Bremen (2006-present)

72-Mahdi Teymuri Garakani: (IMPA, Cesar Camacho); MPIM Bonn(2006-2007),

75-Alireza Salehi Golsefidy: (Yale, Grigory Margulis); Princeton/IAS (2006-present)

75-Hamid Usefi: (U. Western Ontario, David Riley) U. Saskatchwan (06-07); UBC (2007-present)

75-Meysam Nassiri: (IMPA, Enrique Pujals); IMPA (2006-present)

2007

70?-Majid Nariman-Nejad: (Université Denis Diderot, Paris VII, Pierre Vogel); ...

72-Javid Validashti: (Purdue, Bernd Ulrich); U. Kansas (2007-present)

74-Amin Gholampour: (UBC, Jim Bryan); Caltech (2007-present)

75-Reza Alaghband: (USC, Gareth James); J.P. Morgan Chase

76-Parisa Babaali: (Stevens Institute of Technology, Robert Gilman); ...

76-Mohsen Bahramgiri: (MIT, Peter Shor); '''Sharif dept. Management Sci. --TT''' (since 2007)

77-Omid Amini: (France-Informatics, ?); MPI-Saarbrucken

2008

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Mostafa Esfahanizadeh: France (PhD)

69-Shantia Yarahmadian: Indiana

72-Mohammad Ghebleh: SFU

73-Reza Seyyedali: JHU

74-Masood Aryapoor: Yale

74-Mohammadreza Jalali: UNC Charlotte

75-Mehran Mehrdad: Bonn

75-Hamid Hazari: JHU

75-Mahdad Khatirinejadfard: SFU

75-Maryam Verdian Rizi: SFU

75-Ruhollah Ebrahmian: Yale

77-Hamidreza Arian: Toronto

77-Khosro Monsef Shokri: Bonn

77-Amir Moradifam: UBC

77-Davoud Cheraghi: SUNY SB

78-Farzan Rohani: McGill

78-Amir Mohammadi: Yale

Shervin Shahrokhi: Toronto

Vahid Shirbisheh: UWO

Nadya Askaripour: UWO

Farzad Fathizadeh: UWO

Mehdi Garousian: UWO

Ali Moatadelro: UWO

Arash Pourkia: UWO

Mohammad Hassanzadeh: UWO

Hamed Mirjalalieh Shirazi: Waterloo

Shahab Shahabi: McGill

Reza Taleb: McMaster

Saleh Aliyari: Indiana

Masoud Yari: Indiana

Ahmad Yasamin: Indiana

Mostafa Zamani Forooshani: Indiana

Babak Modami: Yale

Hesameddin Abbaspour: UBC

Shabnam Akhtari: UBC

Mehdi Tavakol: JHU

Kaveh Fouladgar: Stanford

Salman Abolfath-Beigi: MIT

Hoda Bidkhori: MIT

Reza Rezazadegan: Rutgers

Iman Setayesh: Princeton (2006-present, Pandharipande R.)

Mohammad Farajzadeh Tehrani: Princeton (2007-present, Tian G. )

Mohammad Abbas Rezaei: U Chicago

Ehsan Azmoodeh

Mahya Ghandehari

Nafiseh Jahanbakht

Mahsa Allahbakhshi: U Victoria

Shahla Naserasr: William & Mary U, VA (2007-present)

Maryam Namazi

Hirbod Asa: U Montreal

Mostafa Nasri: IMPA

Mahshid Atapour: U Saskatchewan

Phd minors: Shahin Amiri Sharifi? Mohsen Bayati? Ashkan Zahedi?