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Dr.
Hamid Najafi is
a founder of 3ei and co-founder and CEO of Broadlink Research,
Inc. (BLR) a Silicon Valley wireless product company. Dr.
Najafi received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, department
of Electrical Engineering, in 1983. Prior to BLR, Dr. Najafi
founded Wireless Link Corp. in 1993 with two engineers and
grew the company and sold it in 2000 to CSI Wireless of
Calgary Canada. Prior to Wireless Link, in 1986, he co-founded
Transtech International, a research and development firm
specializing in wireless technologies. Dr. Najafi served
as the first elected Vice president of the Society of Iranian
Professionals (SIP), was a Board member of the American-Iranian
Council, and has advised several other non-profit organizations.
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Dr.
Dariush Rafinejad is a founder of 3ei and founder
and President of Blue Dome, a business consulting firm for
product leadership and organizational excellence. He has
over 25 years of executive leadership experience in global
high technology companies of the Silicon Valley in California.
He was Corporate Vice President at Applied Materials Corporation
and Vice President at Lam Research Corporation. He has been
investor and member of the board of three high-tech startup
companies. He was adjunct professor of marketing at Haas
Business School, UC Berkeley and Dean of Management at Menlo
College in 1998-1999. He has also taught internationally
in Hungary, Russia and Iran. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical
Engineering from UC Berkeley and was a post-doctoral researcher
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Mr.
Amir Ameri,
is the chief financial officer of 3ei and VP of Business
Development at Chemtex International. Mr. Ameri has over
26 years of experience in finance, operations, business
development and strategic partnerships with chemical,
food and high technology companies. Mr. Ameri started
his career with Occidental Chemical Company and was the
Controller at Castle & Cooke, Inc. He also held CFO
position of Magic Edge Inc., Resumix Inc. and Aperto Networks
Inc. Mr. Ameri has a BA in Economics and an MBA in Finance
and Management from Stanford University.
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Dr.
Ali Bakhshi is currently Research Deputy and
head of Civil Engineering Department Laboratories at Sharif
University of Technology (SUT). He earned his B.S. and M.S.
degrees from SUT and Shiraz University in 1988 and 1990,
respectively. In 1998 he received his Ph.D from Hiroshima
University, Japan where he joined as a full-time faculty
member in the same year. In 2000 he moved to SUT and involved
in design and installation of shaking table facility. Dr.
Bakhshi’s main interest includes experimental and analytical
research in Structural control, Seismic performance of Adobe
Structures, Seismic Hazard and Risk Analyses, and Random
Vibrations. He has published several papers in the international
journals and conferences.
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Dr.
Mohammad Ali Ghannad is currently the head of
Earthquake Engineering Division of Department of Civil Engineering
at Sharif University of Technology (SUT). He received his
B.S. and M.S. degrees from SUT in 1988 and 1991, respectively.
In 1998 he received his Ph.D. from Nagoya University, Japan
and joined SUT as a faculty member in the same year. He
has 17 years of experience in research and consulting in
the field of structural design and earthquake engineering.
Dr. Ghannad’s main research interests are Structural
Dynamics, Seismic Performance Based Design, Dynamic Soil-Structure
Interaction and Vulnerability Study of Adobe Structures.
He is author and co-author of several international papers
in these fields.
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Professor
Vitelmo V. Bertero is presently Professor Emeritus
at the Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering,
and Research Engineer at the Earthquake Engineering Research
Center at the University ofCalifornia (UC), Berkeley. In
1947 he received his degree in Civil Engineering from the
Facultad de Ciencias Matemáticas, Físico-Químicas
y Naturales, Universidad del Litoral, Rosario, Argentina,
his native country. In 1955 he received his M.S. degree
and, in 1957, his Sc.D. degree in civil engineering from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1958 he joined
the Department of Civil Engineering at UC Berkeley, where,
from 1988 to 1990, he was the Director of the Earthquake
Engineering Research Center, and where for the past 46 years
he has been carrying out numerous integrated analytical
and experimental studies on seismic behavior of civil engineering
facilities. Professor Bertero has published more than 350
papers and reports on various issues in earthquake engineering
and received numerous national and international awards
for his teaching and original research efforts. In 1990
he was awarded the Berkeley Citation, UC’s highest
honor. In 1971–72 Professor Bertero served as the chief
technical advisor to the UNESCO Mission at the International
Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo.
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Dr.
Yousef Bozorgnia is Associate Director of the
Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center. PEER
is a national earthquake engineering research center headquartered
at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Bozorgnia
received his Ph.D. degree in civil engineering from the
University of California, Berkeley. He has 25 years of experience
in research and consulting in earthquake engineering and
has been principal engineer and managing engineer in engineering
organizations in northern California. His experience encompasses
two areas of earthquake engineering: structural earthquake
engineering, and engineering characterization of strong
ground motions. He is author and co-author of numerous research
publications on various issues in earthquake engineering.
Dr. Bozorgnia and Professor Vitelmo V. Bertero have recently
edited a comprehensive book titled “Earthquake Engineering:
From Engineering Seismology to Performance-Based Engineering.”
The book has just been released. In 1995, the Earthquake
Engineering Research Institute (EERI) awarded Bozorgnia
the U.S. National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP)
Professional Fellowship. He is a member of various scientific
and professional organizations, and a Fellow of the American
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Mr.
Rajendra Desai
is the Hon. Jt. Director & Managing Trustee, National
Centre for Peoples’-Action in Disaster Preparedness
(NCPDP), www.ncpdpindia.org, 103 Antariksh, Dr. V.S Road,
Ahmedabad 380015. He is also honorary member of the Society
of Structural Engineers Of Southern California; Associate
Member of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Oakland,
California; and Life Member of Indian Society of Earthquake
Technolgy. Mr Desai has received numerous awards including:
A.S.Arya University of Roorkee Award 2000 for Disaster Mitigation,
November 2000 and Hari Om Ashram HUDCO Award for Dissemination
of Earthquake Resistant Housing Technology in Latur. Mr.
Desai is a Consultant for Disaster Mitigation to various
organizations in India including Prime-Minister’s Relief
Fund – Repair & Retrofitting and Reconstruction
of schools. He has been technical assistance to several
States including: Gujarat U.P., Uttaranchal, and Maharashtra
for Field Shake Table Program for Confidence Building, Reconstruction
of villages and Earthquake Safety Initiative.
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Seyed
Ebrahim Mousavi Eshkiki is a graduate student
at Sharif University of Technology (SUT). He received his
B.S. from SUT in 2003 and currently he is working on his
M.Sc. thesis project titled "Structural Typology of
Traditional Houses of Iran Based on Their Seismic Behavior"
which is expected to finish by the end of 2005. He was ranked
11th among 15000 participants in the Nationwide Entrance
Examination of Universities for Graduate Studies (2003)
and 2nd in Nationwide Olympiad of Civil Engineering Students
(2003). Mr. Mousavi's research interests include vulnerability
study of masonry houses, structural control and applications
of fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence in earthquake
engineering.
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Arash
Khosravifar is a graduate student at Sharif University
of Technology (SUT). He received his B.S. from SUT in 2003
and currently he is working on his M.Sc. thesis project
titled "Structural Typology of Traditional Houses of
Iran Based on Their Seismic Behavior" which is expected
to finish by the end of 2005. He was ranked 8th among 400,000
participants in Iran Nationwide University Entrance Exam
for Undergraduate Studies (1998). He has one year of laboratory
work on "High Strength and Light Concrete" (2001)
and also work experience in a consulting engineers company
(Sazian) from 2002 to 2004. Mr. Khosravifar's research interests
are Structural Dynamics, Vulnerability Study of Rural Houses,
Control of Structure, and Bridge Engineering. |
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Farrokh B. Malihi has over 25 years of experience in petrochemical industry, and consumer products. He is founder and managing director of Fargol Group, an international consulting firm specializing in product design and development, research, and professional training for petrochemical industry, detergents and personal care products industry.
Prior to his consulting experience he was a section manager for household product development at Colgate-Palmolive Technology Center, Piscataway, New Jersey, where he spent ten years in positions of increasing responsibility in research and development. His professional experience also includes four years as senior scientist at Glidden Coatings & Resins, Division of ICI Chemicals, Strongsville, Ohio.
He completed his graduate studies in Polymers & Surface Sciences at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University, and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.
Farrokh Malihi is holder of two U.S. patents, and three international patents on detergent formulation and processing. He has published over thirty technical papers in the field of polymers, detergents, and surfactant technology, and has been a frequent speaker at major international conferences.
www.fargolgroup.com, Email: info@fargolgroup.com |
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Dr.
Farzad Naeim is the Vice President and General
Counsel for John A. Martin & Associates, Inc., (JAMA)
in Los Angeles, one of the largest structural and earthquake
engineering consulting firms in the United States (www.johnmartin.com).
He has been with JAMA since 1982 when he received his Ph.D.
from University of Southern California. Dr. Naeim is a licensed
civil and structural engineer in California. In 2002, he
obtained his J.D. with highest honors from Concord Law School.
He has been admitted to practice law in California. In addition,
he is a licensed patent attorney. Dr. Naeim is a member
of Board of Directors of the Earthquake Engineering Research
Institute (EERI) and the editor of Earthquake Spectra, the
professional journal of EERI. He also serves on the Board
of Directors of the Consortium of Organizations for Strong
Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS), the Industrial Advisory
Councils of UCLA and Cal State Northridge (CSUN), and the
Advisory Council of the Southern California Earthquake Center
(SCEC). He is a member and a past president of the Los Angeles
Tall Buildings Structural Design Council. Dr. Naeim has
authored two widely used textbooks on earthquake engineering
and has published more than 120 papers and developed 45
different software systems for earthquake engineering design
and education. |
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