Education
Najafi earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the Aryamehr University of Technology (Isfahan University of technology). He went on to enroll in the PhD program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but dropped out in 1978 during the Iranian revolution and returned to Iran. As of December 2006, he has been an instructor at the Department of Mathematic Science at Sharif University of Technology since 1979, working on representation theory.
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