Siavash Shahshahani
Siavash Shahshahani is a well known Iranian Mathematician. He has done a lot of research in the field of mathematics and has published numerous papers. Currently, he is the Senior Fellow of IPM and has been a Professor at Sharif University of Technology since 1974.[1] He is currently head of its Mathematics department.
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| Country: | Iran |
| Email: | shahshah[at]irnic.ir ,shahshah[at]iranet.ir |
| Facebook: |  [Siavash Shahshahani Siavash Shahshahani]
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Siavash is the ALAC Liaison to the ccNSO Council.[2] He has been involved in efforts to Internet development in Iran from the very start, and is involved with the development of Arabic domain names.[3]
Career History
Mr. Shahshahani became the Deputy Director of the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics-IPM, when the Internet was introduced in Iran, which was in 1994. Later he served as the head of Iranian Academic Network-IRANET, which works under IPM.[4]
He served as Head of School of Mathematics from 1989 to 1994.[5] He has also served as a Director of the APTLD for two years, from 2007 to 2009. He was a longtime director of IRNIC, the .ir ccTLD Registry, he retired from it in 2008.[6]
Memberships
Siavash remained a Member of Scientific Council of IPM from 1989 to 1993.[7] He was on the board of ICANN in 2005.[8] He is a member of ccTLD registry of Iran.[9]
Events
Education
Siavash got his bachelors degree in 1964 and masters degree ion 1966 from University of California, Berkley. He did his PhD from University of California, Berkley in 1969. He studied Mathematics as his major.[12]