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Nahal Iravani-Sani on the Quest for Justice

Nahal Iravani-Sani is a Deputy District Attorney in Santa Clara County, in the Silicon Valley /San Francisco Bay Area of California. She has served as a prosecutor for over two decades, having served as the sole lead trial attorney on a variety of felony cases, through all stages of the criminal justice system.

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Maryam Rofougaran: Transforming Wireless Technology

Maryam Rofougaran is a transformational inventor, technology executive, and entrepreneur in the field of electrical engineering, with a focus on wireless technologies. She was co-founder of Innovent Systems in 1998, and has been listed on the National Diversity Council’s Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology.
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Soroosh Sorooshian: The Physical Environment Transcends Borders

Soroosh Sorooshian is the Director of the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (CHRS) and a Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science at University of California, Irvine.
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Nader Engheta: The Pinnacle of Interdisciplinary Research

Nader Engheta is the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, with affiliations in the Departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Bioengineering.
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Niloofar Razi Howe: Focusing On The Path, Will Make It Through

Niloofar Razi Howe has been a venture capitalist, an entrepreneur and an operator in the technology industry for the past 25 years, with a focus on the security market for the past 12 years. Currently she is the Chief Strategy Officer at RSA.
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Negin Farsad: Debunking Stereotypes Through Humor

Negin Farsad is an acclaimed writer, director, and star of the hit documentary “The Muslims are Coming!” starring Jon Stewart, David Cross and Lewis Black and Nerdcore Rising, starring Weird Al Yankovic (both available wherever movies are streamed/downloaded).
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Neda Nobari: Fire, Hope And Love For Humanity

Neda Nobari is a community activist and founder of the Neda Nobari Foundation, a decade-old private foundation that advocates for social justice through the arts and education. Before launching her career in community service, Nobari was the Vice Chair and founding member of Bebe Stores, Inc. for 22 years.
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Behzad Razavi On The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out

Behzad Razavi is Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles, where he conducts research in the area of microelectronics and microchip design. He has published seven books and more than 180 papers in the field and has received eight IEEE best paper awards and four teaching awards.
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Houra Merrikh on Overcoming Adversity and Becoming a Leading Scientist

Houra Merrikh is an assistant professor of microbiology at the University of Washington in Seattle and director of the Merrikh Lab. Dr. Merrikh is the recipient of the 2016 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science.
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Ghassem R. Asrar: An Exceptional Performance Award Recipient from NASA

Dr. Ghassem Asrar is Director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a partnership between Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland. Prior to this position, he served as the Director of World Climate Research Program (WCRP) in Geneva, Switzerland from 2008-2013.
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The Tehran Times: Recent remarks by John E. Smith

The Tehran Times, Iran's leading English-language daily newspaper, has published the full-text of the recent remarks by John E. Smith of the US Department of Treasury on its front page. Smith is the acting director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control and he spoke on the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action between Iran and leading world powers.
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Sam Heidari: Perfecting Wi-Fi Technology

Dr. Sam Heidari serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Quantenna Communications, Inc., chairman of the board of directots of SiTune Corporation, board member of Global Semiconductor Alliance and member of advisory board to the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California.
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Abass Alavi: Shaping Molecular Imaging

Abbas Alavi is Professor of Radiology and Neurology, as well as Director of Research Education in the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania.Dr. Alavi is a physician-scientist specializing in the field of molecular imaging, most notably in the imaging modality of positron emission tomography (PET).
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Mark Changizi: Pushing the Boundaries of Perception

Dr. Mark Changizi is director of human cognition at 2AI Labs. He is a prolific scientist and author, with unique cross-disciplinary expertise in cognitive science, neuro-biology, vision, optics, and language, aiming to grasp the ultimate foundations underlying why and how we think, feel and see as we do.
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Yasamin Mostofi: a Presidential Early Career Awardee

Yasamin Mostofi is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara, where she runs a research lab on mobile sensor networks. Yasamin is the recipient of the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama.
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Ali Khademhosseini: A Global Leader in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

Dr. Ali Khademhosseini is a Professor at the Harvard University and also teaches at the joint Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). He is also the director of Biomaterials Innovation Research Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) where he leads a large interdisciplinary team of over 90 researchers.
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Nariman Farvardin: Those Who Know, Do; Those Who Understand, Teach

Dr. Nariman Farvardin is the seventh president of Stevens Institute of Technology since July 2011. Farvardin joined Stevens from the University of Maryland, where he was a member of the faculty for 27 years. He served as the University of Maryland's Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost from 2007-2011.
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Cumrun Vafa on Stringing the Universe Together

Cumrun Vafa is an Iranian-American physicist at Harvard University and one of the leading string theorists in the world. He has written over 250 scientific articles. He is well known for his joint work on developing a way to calculate black hole entropy and shedding light on some work of Stephen Hawking.
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Siavash Alamouti on How Technology Can Empower the Oppressed

Siavash Alamouti is the President and CEO of mimik Technology, a startup dedicated to empowering consumers to take control of their content using a distributed cloud technology. Their software can run as an application on any computing device, turning them into "micro servers."
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Leila Vaziri on Breaking World Records

Leila Vaziri of the USA celebrates victory in the Women's 50m Backstroke Final during the XII FINA World Championships at the Rod Laver Arena on March 29, 2007 in Melbourne, Australia.(March 28, 2007 - Source: Al Bello/Getty Images Sport).
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Farhang (Fred) Aryan: Life is a Marathon

Farhang (Fred) Aryan is an executive in the logistics industry with close to three decades of experience in building one of the largest delivery firms serving the U.S. East Coast and has a passion for community service. 
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Lily Sarafan: Breaking Silos and Fostering Innovation

Lily Sarafan is co-founder and CEO of Home Care Assistance, the largest consumer health company in aging services, with more than six thousand employees across 100 global markets; Sarafan is one of Silicon Valley's top 40 under 40 honorees.
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Hamid Moghadam: Building a Culture of "Empowered Accountability"

Hamid Moghadam is chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Prologis. Mr. Moghadam co-founded the company's predecessor, AMB Property Corporation, in 1983 and led the company through its initial public offering in 1997 as well as its merger with ProLogis in 2011.
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Shayan Zadeh: Make a Positive Dent in the World

Shayan Zadeh is co-founder of Gear Zero. Along with Alex Mehr, Shayan started Gear Zero to rethink the way people work.Previously, Shayan co-founded Zoosk, one of the world's largest online dating platforms and a top 10 grossing app in the Apple App Store.
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Hadi Partovi's American Dream: Making Coding Available to All

Hadi Partovi is an entrepreneur and investor, and also co-founder and CEO of the non-profit Code.org, whose mission is to make computer science and programming education available to young students in schools in America and around the world.
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Mohsen Moazami: A Farewell to Pre-Set Paths

Mohsen Moazami is a Founder and Managing Director at Columbus Nova Technology Partners (CNTP), a novel global technology investment firm combining the best attributes of venture and private equity business models.
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Iranian-Americans: A Bridge to Understanding and Peace

On the last day of March, about a hundred distinguished Iranian-Americans gathered at the Willard, Washington, D.C.'s most storied hotel, to celebrate the arrival of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year.
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Bridge 2014 Feature in Tehran Times

The Bridge 2014 gathering on “High-Tech Entrepreneurship in Iran,” held at the Wheeler Auditorium of the University of California at Berkeley on the first Saturday of September, broke new ground on multiple fronts.
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Diversity Is America's 21st Century Strength

West Asia Council president co-authors substantive piece on diversity in the Huffington Post with Mathew Burrows of the Atlantic Council.
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