List of Iranian Americans Professors at American Universities

 Mehran Kardar is an Iranian born physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He received his B.A. in physics from Cambridge University, and obtained his Ph.D. from MIT. Kardar is particularly known for the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang (KPZ) equation in theoretical physics, which has been named after him and collaborators. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001.