10th Global SUTA Reunion with Distinguished Guest Speakers

Sharif University of Technology Association (SUTA) is pleased to invite you to its global SUTA reunion event, Greater Seattle Area Chapter held in Redmond/WA. At this event, Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed (the world’s leading phenomenologists and theoretical physicist, Professor at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) and Dr. Babak Parviz (Vice President at Amazon and creator of Google Glass) will be the keynote speakers. The highlight of this event is to present “2018 SUTA’s Dr. Amin Lifetime Achievement Award” to Prof. Firooz Partovi (former Professor of Sharif University of Technology) to acknowledge his lifetime dedication to the Iranian’s academia and students’ education.

Please note this is a public event, and everyone is welcome to attend. Due to the limited availability of seats, registration is required for this event. The registration site will be opened soon, please stay tuned for more details.

Keynote speakers biographies

Prof. Firooz Partovi, Recipient of the 2018 SUTA’s Dr. Amin Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Partovi has been employee number two of Sharif University (second only to the late Dr. Mojtahedi himself). He was a young Physics professor in Polytechnique University when he was approached by Dr. Mojtahedi about the establishment of the then Aryamher University. Together they managed to recruit the first generation of the staff and faculty for the university. As an energetic young professor working through the first years of university, Dr. Partovi’s footprint can be seen everywhere on Sharif campus. Dr. Partovi founded the Physics department and was its professor from 1965 to 1985, as well as its chairman for a number of years. Moreover, he designed the program to computerize the student registration and record keeping. Dr. Partovi is a graduate of MIT and in addition to Sharif University, has worked at MIT, Harvard, Tehran Polytechnique, and Mazandaran University (where he was one of the founders), in areas covering nuclear physics, laser surgery, voice recognition, and computer science as applied to financial markets. Dr. Partovi’s impeccable track record and likable personality have made him highly respected among his peers and former students. Dr. Partovi lives in Seattle and has been a speaker in one of the events of the SUTA’s Seattle Chapter in 2017.
In recognizing Dr. Partovi, SUTA appreciates a generation of hard-working and talented individuals who did the groundwork for creating a world-class university. Dr. Partovi is one of the very few remaining members of that generation who in fact preceded Dr. Amin himself.

Dr. Babak Parviz, Vice President at Amazon

Babak Parviz is a Vice President at Amazon.com. He received his BA in Literature from the University of Washington, BS in Electronics from Sharif University of Technology, MS in Physics from University of Michigan, MS and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Univ. of Michigan; and completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. Prior to joining Amazon, he was with Google as a Google Distinguished Engineer and a Director at Google [x]. He is the creator of Google Glass. He founded, built, and led the Glass program till 2013, founded the robotics surgery program (now an independent company, Verb Surgical), and co-founded the Smart Contact Lens program at Google (now a joint collaboration with Novartis). He co-invented the biosensing technology resulting in the founding of Claros Diagnostics Inc. (acquired by OPKO). His research, engineering, and development interests span novel computing and communication paradigms, high-tech with social impact, bionanotechnology, bioengineering, MEMS, nano-scale devices, and photonics. His work has been put on display at the London Museum of Science and has received numerous recognitions and awards including NSF Career Award, MIT Technology Review 35, Time magazine’s best invention of the year (2008 and 2012), IEEE CAS Industrial Pioneer Award, Your Health Top 10 Medical advance of the year, and About.com top invention and has been reported on in thousands of articles worldwide. He was selected by Ad Age as one of the 50 most creative people in the United States. Last year he received the University of Michigan Bicentennial Alumni Award.

Dr. Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Nima Arkani-Hamed is one of the leading particle physics phenomenologists of his generation with interests in high-energy physics, string theory, and cosmology. He is a Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and director of the Center for Future High Energy Physics (CFHEP) in China, Beijing. He was formerly a Professor at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Arkani-Hamed received BS with honors in Mathematics and Physics in 1993 from University of Toronto and Ph.D. in 1997 from Harvard University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University.
Dr. Arkani-Hamed was selected as a member of the Selection Committee for the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics and also currently is A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. He has won numerous awards such as Gribov Medal of European Physical Society in 2003, Phi Beta Kappa Teaching award of Harvard University in 2005, the Sackler Prize from Tel Aviv University in 2008. He was an inaugural awardee of the Fundamental Physics Prize, the creation of physicist and internet entrepreneur, Yuri Milner in July 2012. Arkani-Hamed has appeared on various television programs and newspapers talking about space, time and dimensions and the current state of theoretical physics and has taken a lead in proposing new physical theories that can be tested at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nima_Arkani-Hamed