Shahriar Afshar
| Shahriar S. Afshar (Persian: شهریار افشار) | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Shahriar Sadigh Afshar 1971 Takab, Iran |
| Residence | USA |
| Citizenship | Iran & American |
| Known for | Afshar experiment, KOR-fx, SoundKix, acousto-haptics |
| Awards |
Khwarizmi International Award 1989,Popular Science Invention of the Year 2010, |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist, Inventor and Entrepreneur |
| Institutions | Harvard University, Rowan University, IRIMS, Perimeter Institute, NASA |
Khwarizmi International Award 1989,Popular Science Invention of the Year 2010,
CES Innovations Award 2013 ,
Shahriar Sadigh Afshar (Persian: شهريار صديق افشار) (born 1971) is an Iranian-American physicist and multiple award-winning inventor. He is known for devising and carrying out the Afshar experiment at Harvard University in 2004.
Since July 2004, Afshar has been a Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rowan University. His highest academic degree is B.S. He has numerous patents to his name in high-tech and in 2014 was ranked as the 8th smartest person alive by Super Scholar.
The Afshar experiment is an optical experiment, which he claims demonstrates a contradiction of the principle of complementarity in quantum mechanics. As a result of the controversy surrounding claims made about the experiment, Afshar complained that he has been attacked over his religion and ethnicity. These personal attacks drew a rebuke in an editorial in the New Scientist, which called them "extreme" and an "entirely wrong kind of conflict".
More recently Afshar is President, CEO and CTO of Immerz Inc, a startup in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that makes the immersive media KOR-fx product. In his interviews with CNN and Bloomberg TV, it has been called "4D technology", as a follow on to the recent success of 3D entertainment.
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