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Reza Mansouri At Physics Club
Reza () is the Persian variant of the Arabic name Rida, which literally means "the fact of being pleased or contented; contentment, approval". It is one of the most widely used names in Iran. According to Annemarie Schimmel, "riḍā is closely related to shukr"; "shukr" is an Arabic term denoting thankfulness and gratitude. In Islam, rida is interpreted as ''satisfaction'' or "''perfect contentment'' with God's will or decree". Given name Religion * Ali Reza, the Iranian Persian name for Ali al-Rida, eighth Twelver Shi'a Imam Academics * Reza Afshari, Iranian historian * Reza Davari Ardakani, Iranian philosopher * Reza Derakhshani, Iranian-born American inventor, computer scientist * Reza Ghadiri, Iranian-American chemist * Reza Iravani, Iranian academic * Reza Malekzadeh, Iranian physician * Reza Mansouri, Iranian physicist * Reza Olfati-Saber, Iranian roboticist * Reza Aslan, Iranian-American scholar, author, and journalist * Reza Moridi, Canadian politician * Reza Negar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aza (given Name)
Aza is a given name in several parts of the world. In English, the usual pronunciation is Help:IPA/English, azā (ah-zah). The name is a modern form of the Persian name Reza. It is also an Arabic name meaning “one who provides comfort”.https://books.google.com/books?id=x9AY2AdyDkEC&pg=PT244&dq=aza+name&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwib-5CLld6MAxUj5MkDHcNvOUU4KBDoAXoECAgQAw#v=onepage&q=aza%20name&f= Given name * Aza of Mannea, king, reigned c. 710–700 BC * Aza Gazgireyeva (1954–2009), Ingush supreme court justice * Aza Habalova (born 1958), South Ossetian politician * Aleksandar Petrović (basketball, born February 1959), Aza Petrović (born 1959), Croatian basketball coach * Aza Rakhmanova (1932–2015), Russian AIDS and hepatitis expert * Aza Raskin (born 1984), American writer, entrepreneur, inventor References Persian masculine given names Masculine given names {{Given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Afshari
Reza Afshari () is professor of history at Pace University. He received his Ph.D. at Temple University. His studies center on human rights Human rights are universally recognized Morality, moral principles or Social norm, norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both Municipal law, national and international laws. These rights are considered ... in Iran, Islamic politics, and Islamic cultural relativism in particular. Representative Publications * "On Historiography of Human Rights Discourse", Human Rights Quarterly, 29 (February 2007) 1-67. * "Discourse and Practice of Human Rights Violations of Iranians of the Baha’i Faith in the Islamic Republic of Iran", a chapter in a book, edited by Dominic Brookshaw of McGill University, Routledge, London, 2007. * Human Rights in Iran: the Abuse of Cultural Relativism, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Hardcover, pp. 359 Professional affiliations Middle East Studies Association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Abbasi
Reza Abbasi (), also known as Aqa Reza ( – 1635), was the leading Persian miniature, Persian miniaturist of the Isfahan School during the later Safavid period, spending most of his career working for Shah Abbas I. He is considered to be the last great master of the Persian miniature, best known for his single miniatures for ''muraqqa'' or albums, especially single figures of beautiful youths. Life and art Riza was possibly born in Kashan, as Āqā Riżā Kāshānī is one of the versions of his name; it has also been suggested that he was born in Mashad, where his father, the miniature artist Ali Asghar (painter), Ali Asghar, is recorded as having worked in the atelier of the governor, Prince Ibrahim Mirza. After Ibrahim's murder, Ali Asghar joined Shah Ismail II's workshop in the capital Qazvin, Qasvin. Riza probably received his training from his father and joined the workshop of Shah Abbas I at a young age. By this date, the number of royal commissions for illustrated books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Ali Reza Khan
Mohammad Ali Reza Khan is a Bangladeshi ornithologist. Education Khan completed his HSC from Manikganj Debendranath College. He completed his Ph.D. in Ornithology from Bombay University (now University of Mumbai) in 1977 under the supervision of Indian ornithologist Salim Ali. Career In 1983, Khan assumed the role of the curator of the Al Ain Zoo in United Arab Emirates. He became head of Dubai Zoo in 1989 and then went on to become a specialist in Wildlife and Zoo Management in 2010. Khan is a former member of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission and World Commission on Park and Protected Area. Khan has written 24 books, 50 publications. He served as a faculty member at Rajshahi University. As of 2016, Khan is serving as a specialist on Wildlife and Zoo Management in Dubai. Awards * Sheikh Mubarak Award for Wildlife Conservation (2001) * National Bangabandhu Award (2010) * Star Lifetime Award (2016) References {{D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Zadeh
Reza Zadeh () is an American computer scientist and technology executive working on machine learning. He is adjunct professor at Stanford University, CEO of Matroid, and a founding team member at Databricks. His work focuses on machine learning, distributed computing, and discrete applied mathematics. His awards include a KDD Best Paper Award and the Gene Golub Outstanding Thesis Award at Stanford. Work Computer Vision The Princeton University ModelNet challenge is an object recognition competition to classify 3D Computer-aided design models into object categories. In 2016, Matroid was a leader in this competition and the relevant neural networks were integrated into the Matroid product. In a collaboration with his own doctor at Stanford hospital, Reza's research team created a neural network to automatically detect Glaucoma in 3D optical coherence tomography images of the eyeball. The net surpassed human doctor performance and is providing diagnostic hints at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Negarestani
Reza Negarestani (born 1977) is an Iranian philosopher and writer, known for "pioneering the genre of 'theory-fiction' with his book" ''Cyclonopedia'' which was published in 2008. It was listed in Artforum as one of the best books of 2009. Negarestani has studied Mathematics at Shiraz University and has been a lecturer in the same university before immigrating to the United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 .... Currently, he directs the critical philosophy programme at The New Centre for Research & Practice. Philosophical work Negarestani has been a regular contributor to '' Collapse'', as well as other print and web publications such as '' CTheory''. On March 11, 2011, faculty from Brooklyn College and The New School organized a symposium to discuss Cyclon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Moridi
Reza Moridi (; born ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Ontario Liberal Party, Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2007 to 2018 who represented the riding of Richmond Hill (provincial electoral district), Richmond Hill. He served as a cabinet minister in the government of Kathleen Wynne. He was the first Iranian-Canadian elected to legislature and appointed as a Cabinet minister in Canada. Background Moridi was born in Urmia, capital of West Azerbaijan Province in Azerbaijan (Iran), northwest Iran. He grew up in Urmia, attended Alborz High School in Tehran and graduated from Tehran University with BSc and MSc degrees in Physics. He continued his education in the UK and obtained MTech and PhD degrees from Brunel University in London. He received an Honorary Doctorate from Odlar Yurdu University, Baku, Azerbaijan. For his contributions to physics and engineering, Moridi was elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Fellow of the Inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan (, ; born May 3, 1972) is an Iranian-American scholar of sociology, writer, and television host. A convert to Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity from Shia Islam as a youth, Aslan eventually reverted to Islam but continued to write about Christianity. He has written four books on religion: ''No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam'', ''Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization'', ''Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth'', ''God: A Human History'' and in 2022 ''An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville''. Aslan has worked for television, including a documentary series exploring world religions on CNN called ''Believer'', and served as an executive producer on the HBO drama series ''The Leftovers (TV series), The Leftovers''. Aslan is a member of the American Academy of Religion and the International Qur'anic Studies Association. He is a professor of crea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Olfati-Saber
Reza Olfati-Saber is an Iranian roboticist and Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Olfati-Saber is an internationally renowned expert in the control and coordination of multi-robot formations. He has also worked in mobile sensor networks, and innovative educational and outreach activities in robotics for disaster management and rescue operations. Early life and education Olfati-Saber was born in Iran. He received his B.S. degree in 1994 in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. He received S.M. degree in 1997 and Ph.D. degree in 2001 in both Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 2001 until 2004. Awards and honors * 2010 – Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), National Science Foundation The U.S. National Science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Mansouri
Reza Mansouri (, born in 1948) is an Iranian physicist and astronomer and a retired professor of physics at Sharif University of Technology. His main research interest is cosmology, Gravity, gravitation and general relativity. As an author he had written several books and papers on scientific development in Iran and also in his profession Theory of relativity, relativity. Biography Reza Mansouri received his Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Vienna under the supervision of Roman Ulrich Sexl. He also spent five years as an Assistant Professor there. He served as Deputy Science Minister from 2001 to 2005 and is one of Iran's influential scientific policymakers. Without his efforts, Iran would not have been able to participate in international scientific collaborations such as International Centre for Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science Applications in the Middle East, SESAME (Middle-East Synchrotron) and the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN in Geneva. Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Malekzadeh
Reza Malekzadeh (; born 1952 in Kazerun, Fars province, Pahlavi Iran) is an Iranian medical scientist and gastroenterologist. Career Malekzadeh studied medicine at Shiraz University. He continued his studies to become specialized in Internal Medicine in Shiraz University where he did as well his fellowship in gastroenterology. In 1985, he joined the department of gastroenterology at Free Royal Hospital in London. After his return to Iran, he got a faculty position at Shiraz University and later on at Tehran University of Medical Sciencesbr>where he is currently a full professor of internal medicine. He is also an Honorary Professor at University of Birmingham, UK. Reza Malekzadeh was the Minister of Health of Iran's government from 1991 to 1993. From 2000 to 2004, Malekzadeh was the secretary of the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciencesbr> and since 2005, the academy's vice-president for research. He is the director of Digestive Disease Research Cente and was appointed as the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Iravani
Mohammad Reza Iravani (in Persian: رضا ایروانی) is a professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He holds the L. Lau Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering in same department (for two consecutive five-year terms from 2004 to 2014). Education and career After obtaining his B.Sc degree in 1976 in electrical engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iravani worked as a consulting engineer from 1976 to 1979. He then moved to Canada and received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1981 and 1985, respectively. From 1985 to 1987, he was an assistant professor at the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario. He became a fellow of the IEEE in 2003 for his “contributions to power engineering education and modeling, design, and control of power electronic converters for power system applications.” In 2007, he became a fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
