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<\/p>\nDr. Yasaman Khazaeni, a Research Staff Member and Manager \u2013 AI at IBM Research, spoke to CISE graduate students about her experience in academia and industry at the CISE Industry Roundtable on February 21st.\u00a0 During the session, Khazaeni\u00a0emphasized the importance of curiosity and coding skills.<\/p>\n
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Khazaeni is a former student of CISE Affiliated Faculty Professor Christos Cassandras (SE, ECE).\u00a0 She graduated from Boston University\u2019s College of Engineering in 2016 with a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering, focusing on multi-agent systems control and optimization. Before that, Khazaeni studied the application of Artificial Intelligence in reservoir modeling at West Virginia University where she received a M.S in Petroleum Engineering in 2009. She began her post-secondary education at Sharif University of Technology in Iran where she received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (2005) and a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering (2005).<\/p>\n
When explaining her career path to students, Khazaeni said, \u201cI owe it to my mentor Christos.\u201d She said that during her second year at BU, Christos connected her with IBM, one of the world\u2019s largest and most influential corporate research labs. Khazaeni had the opportunity to work with IBM\u00a0<\/span>city\u2019s technology\u00a0<\/span>team through an\u00a0<\/span>IBM Smarter Cities<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span>Challenge\u00a0<\/span>that focused on coding visualization models for traffic control. Following graduation, she was offered a position as Research Staff Member, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Cambridge, MA.<\/p>\n Khazaeni\u2019s work is extensive and ranges from robotics to data-driven models. One current focus is to combine AI with large sets of data to create \u201ca conversational smart machine\u201d without eliminating the human agent. She explained the difference between broad, general, and narrow Artificial Intelligence, and spoke briefly about IBM\u2019s expansion into academia. She cited the MIT-IBM Watson Research Lab as a successful, collaborative industrial-academic lab that is advancing AI research.<\/p>\n A large part of Khazaeni\u2019s success lies within application to new, complex situations. \u201cHow do we keep in mind what we learned and apply it to a new set of data?\u201d Khazaeni asked students. \u201cCuriosity will take the research industry to the next level.\u201d She advised them to keep up with side projects as the research industry \u201ccan give you a large autonomy on what you choose to work on as long as you can align it with the bigger goals of the company.\u201d She also recommended that all students be comfortable with coding because it will propel them further into their career.<\/p>\n Prof. Cassandras added, \u201cthe biggest value of graduate education is learning how to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAsk questions all the time,\u201d Khazaeni said. \u201cNever swallow them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Yasaman Khazaeni, a Research Staff Member and Manager \u2013 AI at IBM Research, spoke to CISE graduate students about her experience in academia and industry at the CISE Industry Roundtable on February 21st.\u00a0 During the session, Khazaeni\u00a0emphasized the importance of curiosity and coding skills. Khazaeni is a former student of CISE Affiliated Faculty Professor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18553,"featured_media":28565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[244],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=28328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33565,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28328\/revisions\/33565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}