Kaveh Pahlavan
- January 10, 2024
- Engineer
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Kaveh Pahlavan Biography
| Name | Kaveh Pahlavan |
| Birthday | Mar 16 |
| Birth Year | 1951 |
| Place Of Birth | Tehran |
| Home Town | Tehran |
| Birth Country | Iran |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
Kaveh Pahlavan is one of the most popular and richest Engineer who was born on March 16, 1951 in Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Pahlavan received his BS/MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran (1975), and his PhD degree from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts (1979). He began his academic career as an assistant Professor at the Northeastern University, Boston, MA (1979), then he joined the faculty at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1985). Between the academic appointments, he was the director of advanced development at the Infinite Inc., Andover, Mass (1983-85). At WPI he founded the world’s first academic research program in wireless local area networks (WLAN), commercially known as Wi-Fi (1985), and the first academic research program in indoor geolocation (1996). He has been a visiting Professor at the University of Oulu, Finland (1995-2007), where he also spent his sabbatical leave in 1999. He has spent his other sabbatical leaves at the Olin College (2004) and Harvard University (2011). Currently, he is a recipient of an “overseas famous scholar award” from R.I. China to serve as a visiting professor at University of Science and Technology Beijing (2019-2022). He was the Chief Technical Adviser of WINDATA, Northborough, MA (1987-1993) and Skyhook Wireless, Boston, MA (2004-2014). WINDATA was one of the pioneers in design of WLAN and Skyhook is the pioneer of Wi-Fi positioning systems, which was adopted by Steve Jobs for the original iPhone (2007). Throughout several decades of research and scholarship, he has also served as a consultant to many key players in the wireless industry including Nokia, Apple, DEC, Honeywell, Electrobit, JPL and NTT. He has also lead the US team for review of the National R&D Programs, sponsored by the Finnish Academy and TEKES (2000, 2003).
For his contributions to the wireless networks, he was appointed as the Westin Hadden Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at WPI (1993-1996), was elected as a fellow of the IEEE (1996), was selected as a member of the Evolution of Untethered Communications Committee, National Research Council (1997), was the first non-Finn to be awarded a Nokia fellowship (1999), was the first Fulbright-Nokia scholar (2000), and was awarded the WPI’s Board of Trustees’ Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship Award (2011).
Kaveh Pahlavan Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Engineer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Kaveh Pahlavan is one of the richest Engineer from Iran. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kaveh Pahlavan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
During Pahlavan’s college days in Iran, he played in the University of Tehran Volleyball Team, which won two Iranian National Volleyball College Championships (1971 and 1972), and a second place position (1973). In 1973, sponsored by the University of Tehran, he participated in the College Student’s Olympics, Moscow, USSR. He also played for Peykan/Shahbaz Volleyball Club (1969–72), ranked on top five first class Iranian National Volleyball League, and for that he was invited to the Iranian National Volleyball Team in
- After migration to US in 1975, he has won numerous trophies in Volleyball (79–89), in Tennis (95–05) and more recently in Argentine Tango Dancing with his wife (2011–present). He studies history, philosophy, and Persian poetry as hobby. In 2011, he managed English translation and youtube posting of Behrouz Gharibpour’s musical masterpiece, “Puppet Opera of Rumi”. In 1973, he married his life partner, Farzaneh, and currently they live in Newton, MA. They have a daughter (Nasim), a son (Nima), and two grandchildren (Roya and Navid Kablan).
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Kelly Ranked on the list of most popular Engineer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Iran. Kaveh Pahlavan celebrates birthday on March 16 of every year.