Jawad A. Salehi, IEEE Fellow & Optica Fellow, (Persian: جواد صالحی) born in Kazemain (Kadhimiya), Iraq, on December 22, 1956, is an Iranian electrical and computer engineer, pioneer of optical code division multiple access (CDMA) and named Highly Cited Researcher.

He was also elected as a member of Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame (چهره‌های ماندگار) in Electrical Engineering, October 2010.

and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, in 1980 and 1984, respectively.

Later on 1997, Salehi joined Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, as a faculty member and was an associate professor and since 2003 he has become a full professor with the department of electrical engineering (EE), Sharif University of Technology (SUT).

From 1999 to 2001, he was the Head of Mobile Communications Systems Group and co-director of Advanced and Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) Laboratory at Iran Telecom Research Center (ITRC), Tehran, conducting research in the area of advance CDMA techniques for optical and radio communications systems.