List of Iranian Americans Professors at American Universities

 Zadeh was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, as Lotfi Aliaskerzadeh, to an Iranian Azerbaijani father from Ardabil, Rahim Aleskerzade, who was a journalist on assignment from Iran, and a Russian Jewish mother, Fanya Korenman, who was a pediatrician from Odessa.The Soviet government at this time courted foreign correspondents, and the family lived well while in Baku.Zadeh attended elementary school for three years there, which he has said “had a significant and long-lasting influence on my thinking and my way of looking at things.In 1931, when Zadeh was ten years old, his family moved to Tehran in Iran, his father’s homeland.