Arash Mahyari

About Arash Mahyari

I have a dual degree in Electrical Engineering and Statistics with 15 years of R&D experience. I have worked on several application areas of machine learning including computer vision, reinforcement learning, deep learning, deep generative networks, recommendation systems, cybersecurity, high dimensional machine learning, speech processing, and graph theory. My research projects have led to more than 25 papers in top-tier journals and conferences, one book chapter, and 9 US and worldwide patents. I have managed groups of research scientists, research associates, and engineers.

Experience

1. Research Scientist

   Ihmc

   Sep 2018 — Present

   7 US Patents in different application areas: computer vision, imitation learning, etc-Developed Policy Augmentation for faster convergence of deep reinforcement learning algorithms-Developed real-time learning from experts for deep recommendation systems (funding agency: NIH)-Developed a conversational chatbot for patients diagnosed with prostate cancer (funding agency: Pfizer)-Developed the enhanced pathway-level information extractor for gene expression analysis (funding agency:).

Education

• Michigan State University

  Dual degree: Master of Science (M.Sc.), Statistics, 3.6

  2012 — 2016

• Michigan State University

  Dual Degree: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 4.00

  2012 — 2016