Chehrzad Shakiban

Chehrzad "Cheri" Shakiban (born 1951) is an Iranian and American mathematician, the first Iranian woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics and the first Iranian woman to become a full professor of mathematics. She is retired after working for 37 years as a professor of mathematics at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), where she was the first female full professor; she is also a former director of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications. She is the author of a textbook on applied linear algebra, and has published highly cited work on the use of differential invariants in image recognition. Provided by Wikipedia