{"id":30204,"date":"2020-12-01T10:28:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T15:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/?page_id=30204"},"modified":"2021-06-30T18:16:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T22:16:20","slug":"ali-kebarighotbi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/programs\/student-programs\/industry-roundtables\/industry-roundtables-2\/ali-kebarighotbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Kebarighotbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cise\/files\/2020\/12\/Ali-Kebarighotbi-114x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30206 alignleft\" \/>Ali Kebarighotbi is th<\/span>e Director of Statistical Learning Systems at Nielsen, where he \u00a0focuses\u00a0on research and development of advanced analytical tools for measurement and analysis of consumer goods market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Kebarighotbi received a\u00a0BS \u00a0in Electrical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic, Tehran, Iran in 2002 and an MS \u00a0from University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada in 2007. He earned\u00a0his PhD in\u00a0Systems Engineering at Boston University\u00a0<span>in 2012. His advisor was\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Prof. Christos Cassandras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Nielsen is a leading global information and measurement company that enables companies to understand consumers and consumer behavior. Nielsen measures and monitors what consumers watch (programming, advertising) and what consumers buy (categories, brands, products) on a global and local basis. The company has a presence in approximately 100 countries spread across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America and Russia.<b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While the Nielsen brand is most often associated with television ratings, those TV ratings services comprise approximately one-quarter of the company&#8217;s business and revenues. After substantial work to simplify the company over the last several years, Nielsen today aligns their business into two divisions: What Consumers Buy and What Consumers Watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Kebarighotbi is the Director of Statistical Learning Systems at Nielsen, where he \u00a0focuses\u00a0on research and development of advanced analytical tools for measurement and analysis of consumer goods market. Kebarighotbi received a\u00a0BS \u00a0in Electrical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic, Tehran, Iran in 2002 and an MS \u00a0from University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada in 2007. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18553,"featured_media":0,"parent":32411,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30207,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30204\/revisions\/30207"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}