Nariman Farvardin
Nariman Farvardin | |
|---|---|
| 7th President of Stevens Institute of Technology | |
| Assumed office July 1, 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Harold J. Raveché |
| President at University of Maryland | |
Interim | |
| In office September 1, 2010 – October 31, 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Dan Mote |
| Succeeded by | Wallace Loh |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 15, 1956 Tehran, Imperial State of Iran |
| Alma mater | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical engineering |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Rate-distortion performance of optimum entropy-constrained quantizers (1983) |
Nariman Farvardin (born July 15, 1956) is an Iranian-American engineer and educator, currently serving as president of Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. Formerly senior vice president for academic affairs, provost and acting president at the University of Maryland, College Park, he assumed office at Stevens on July 1, 2011.