IranMathGrads

Trajectory of Iranian Math Graduate Students
(after 1980)

as accurately as possible. Please make separate lists for those who did their PhD in Europe and those who did it in North America. Also, in future this list will hopefully expand to Computer science and statistics too.
 * Please help complete this list of People who did an undergraduate degree in Mathematics in Iran and moved elsewhere,

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 appears at the end.

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.

AMICS: Applied Math, Informatics, Computer Science; St Statistics

1981

Firooz Khosraviyani: (U. Wales, Alun Morris); Texas-AM International

Shahla Marvizi Ahdout: (MIT, Richard Melrose); Long Island U.

Abdol Reza Aftabizadeh: (University of Texas at Arlington, ?);  Ohio U. ?

1983

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

Yousef Bahrampour: (U. Oregon, John Leahy); U. Kerman

1984

Elizabeth Ebrahimzadeh: (Berkeley, Russell Lehman); CSU Sacramento

Javad Namazi: (Indiana U., Alberto Torchinsky); Fairleigh Dickinson U.

1985

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

1986

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

1988

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

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

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

1989

Fraydoun Rezakhanlou: : (NYU, 1989, Varadhan); UC Berkeley

1990

Bizhan Zangeneh: (UBC, John Walsh); Sharif

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

1991

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

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

1994

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

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

1995

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

1996

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

1997

Amir Akbary: (U. Toronto, Kumar Murty); U. Lethbridge

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

Mohammad Taghi Jahandideh: (Dalhousie, Heydar Radjavi); Isfahan U. Tech.

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

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

1998

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

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

Mehdi Hosseini-Nasab [Hoseyni-Nasab]: (U. Wisc. Madison, Sigrun Andradottir, AMICS ); AT&T

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

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

Ali Rajaei: (Princeton U., Andrew Wiles); CRM-McGill; software developer

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

1999

65-Saeed Zakeri: (SUNY SB, John Milnor); UPenn; SUNY SB;  CUNY, Queens College and Graduate Center

66-Ali Shokoufandeh: (Rutgers, Sven Dickinson/Endre Szemerédi, AMICS ); Drexel

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

68-Kambiz Mahmoudian: (U. Toronto, Kumar Murty); Sharif

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

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

2000

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

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

70-Mahdi Asgari: (Purdue, F. Shahidi); U. Michigan (00-03); Fields Institute (03-04); IAS (04-05); Oklahoma State U.

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

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

2001

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

66-Reza Akbarpour: (UWO, M. Khalkhali); started a new PhD in Electrical Engineering

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

70-Ali Lashgari Faghani: (U. Zurich, ?); Cal State U. Fullerton

71-Ramin Takloo-Bighash: (JHU, Joseph Shalika); Princeton U. (01-07); U. Illinois Chicago 

71-Kasra Rafi: (SUNY SB, Y. Minsky); UCSB (01-04); U Conn (04-07); MSRI(07); U. Chicago (08); U. Oklahoma

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

2002

67-Mehdi Sangani Monfared: U. Alberta, Anthony Lau); U. Windsor

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

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

70-Roozbeh Hazrat: (Uni Bielefeld, Anthony Bak); MPI-Bonn; Australian National U.; Queens U. Belfast

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

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

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

2003

66-Abdolali Basiri : (Paris VI, Jean-Charles Faugere); Damghan U.

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

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

71-Elham Kashefi: (London Imperial College, ?, AMICS ); Oxford; Waterloo; Edinburgh U.

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

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

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

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

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

2004

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

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

67-Mohammadreza Raoofi: (Indiana U., K. Zumbrun); MPI-Leipzig

68-Mostafa Esfahanizadeh: (France, ?); IASBS Zanjan

69-Faranak Pahlevani: (U. Pittsburgh, William J. Layton, AMICS ); CUNY- ME college

70-Kamran Reihani: (Tarbiat Modarres, Medghalchi); MPIM (04-05); U Oslo (05-06); NTNU, Norway (06-07); Arizona State U (since 2007)

71-Reza Naserasr: (SFU, Pavol Hell); Royal Military college; Waterloo-NSERC; Carleton

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

72-Delaram Kahrobaei: (CUNY, Baumslag); U. St Andrews, UK (04-06); CUNY Tech and CUNY Graduate Center

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

72-Mohammad Mahdian: (MIT, Daniel Spielman/Michael Goemans, AMICS ); Microsoft (04-06); Yahoo!

73-Milad Niqui: (Nijmegen, Henk Barendregt/Herman Geuvers, AMICS ); ''Radboud Uni. Nijmegen''

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

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

76-Eaman Eftekhary: (Princeton, Zoltan Szabo); Harvard (04-07); IPM (07-08); IPM --Vice Head

2005

69-Mahdi Majidi-Zolbanin: (CUNY, Szpiro); U Illinois Springfield

71-Chekad Sarami: (Michigan Tech, Vladimir Tonchev); Fayetteville State U.

72-Saeed Salehi Purmehr: (U Turku, Magnus Steinby, AMICS ); IASBS Zanjan (05-07); U. Turku

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

74-Mahta Khosravi: (McGill, John Toth); IAS-NSERC (05-07); JHU (07-08); UBC

74-Ebrahim Samei: (U. Manitoba, F. Ghahramani); EPFL (05-06); Waterloo-NSERC (06-08); U. Saskatchewan

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

74-Hossein Namazi: (SUNY SB, Yair Minsky); Princeton U. (05-08); U. Texas Austin

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

74-Hadi Jorati: (Princeton, Elias Stein); UBC (05-present)

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

76-Hadi Salmasian: (Yale, Roger Howe); Queen's U. (05-07); U. Alberta (07-08); U. Windsor (08-09); U. Ottawa

2006

69-Kourosh Tavakoli: (CUNY, Linda Keen); Lehman College, CUNY (2006-2007); Fordham U. (2007-present)

72-Omran Ahmadi: (Waterloo, ?); Fields Institute; Waterloo

72-Mahdi Teymuri Garakani: (IMPA, Cesar Camacho); MPIM Bonn(06-07); ...

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

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

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

75-Meysam Nassiri: (IMPA, Enrique Pujals); IMPA (2006-present); IASBS-Zanjan (2008-present)

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

2007

??-Mohammad Hadi Hooshmand : (USM, Penang, Malaysia, ?); Shiraz U.

66-Mohammad Abry : ( Vrije University of Amsterdam,  Jan J. Dijkstra, Jan. van Mill); Damghan U.

??-Vahid Shirbisheh: (UWO, Jan Minac) ; Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran Iran

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, AMICS ); J.P. Morgan Chase

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

76-Mohsen Bahramgiri: (MIT, Peter Shor, AMICS ); Sharif dept. Management Sci.

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

2008

??-Shahab Shahabi: (McGill, Henry Darmon);McGill

69-Shantia Yarahmadian: (Indiana U., ?)

72-Mohammad Ghebleh: (SFU, ?)

74-Mehran Ebrahimi: (Waterloo, ?)

75-Mahdad Khatirinejadfard: (SFU, ?)

76-Mahshid Atapour: (U. Saskatchewan, ?)

78-Saeed Tafazolian: (IMPA, ?)

2009

68-Saleh Aliyari: Indiana U.

73-Reza Seyyedali: JHU

74-Masood Aryapoor: Yale

74-Mohammadreza Jalali: UNC Charlotte

75-Mehran Mehrdad: Uni. Bonn

75-Hamid Hazari: JHU

75-Maryam Verdian Rizi: SFU

75-Ruhollah Ebrahmian: Yale

77-Hamidreza Arian: U. Toronto

77-Khosro Monsef Shokri: Uni. Bonn

77-Amir Moradifam: UBC

77-Davoud Cheraghi: SUNY SB

78-Amir Mohammadi: Yale

79-Mostafa Fazly: UBC (2008-present, N. Ghoussoub)

79-Hadi Bigdely: (McGill, ?)

80-Ali Aleyasin: (SUNY stony brook, ?) 81-Arman Ahmadieh: (Yale, ?) 81-Iman Setayesh: Princeton (2006-present, Pandharipande R.)

82-Atefeh Mohajeri: (McGill, Bruce shepherd)

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

82-Mohammad Abbas Rezaei: U. Chicago(2007-present ,Lawler G.) -

Majid Hadian Jazi: Uni. Bonn

Shervin Shahrokhi: U. Toronto

Nadya Askaripour: UWO

Farzad Fathizadeh: UWO

Mehdi Garousian: UWO

Ali Moatadelro: UWO

Arash Pourkia: UWO

Mohammad Hassanzadeh: UWO

Hamed Mirjalalieh Shirazi: Waterloo

Reza Taleb: McMaster

Masoud Yari: Indiana U.

Ahmad Yasamin: Indiana U.

Mostafa Zamani Forooshani: Indiana U.

Babak Modami: Yale

Hesameddin Abbaspour: UBC

Shabnam Akhtari: UBC

Mehdi Tavakol: JHU

Kaveh Fouladgar: Stanford

Salman Abolfath-Beigi: MIT

Amin Esfahani: IMPA

Hoda Bidkhori: MIT

Reza Rezazadegan: Rutgers

Shahla Naserasr: William & Mary U., VA

Mahya Ghandehari: Waterloo

Nafiseh Jahanbakht: U Lethbridge

Mahsa Allahbakhshi: U Victoria

Maryam Namazi: U Victoria

Atefeh Mashatan: Waterloo

Mohammad Niksirat: SFU

Javad Ebrahimi Boroujeni: SFU

Afsaneh Bakhtiari: SFU

Pouya Bastani: SFU

Hirbod Asa: U. Montreal

Mostafa Nasri: IMPA

Sajjad Lakzian: Graduate Center, CUNY

Hadi Bigdely: (McGill, ?)

Ali Aleyasin: (SUNY stony brook, ?)

Arman Ahmadieh: (Yale, ?)

Atefeh Mohajeri: (McGill, ?)

Majid Salamat:(Université de Provence, Etienne Pardoux)

Phd minors: (Thanks to Mohsen Bayati for coining this term: This is a list of people who started the PhD program but did not finish)

??-Hossein Mehdizadeh: (Purdue); (moved to Germanic languages and literature)

??-Reza Hosseini: (McGill); (moved to Statistics)

65-Shahin Amiri Sharifi: (NYU)

74-Ashkan Zahedi: (McGill); (moved to Statistics) DRF - MRNF (2007-present)

76-Mohsen Bayati: (Stanford); (moved to EE)

78-Farzan Rohani: (McGill); (moved to statistics)

77-Faezeh Raei: (UT Austin); (moved to Economics)