Mehran Kardar

Mehran Kardar (Persian: مهران کاردار‎‎) 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.

and of about 200 scientific papers

His following courses are currently available on MIT OCW.