Azalia Mirhoseini (Google Brain)

I am a Research Scientist at Google Brain where I focus on deep reinforcement learning approaches to solve problems in computer systems and metalearning. I received my Ph.D. from Rice University where I worked on algorithms and architectures for performance efficient big data analytics. I am the recipient of National Gold Medal in Iran Mathematics Olympiad (2004), Microsoft Women Graduate Student Scholarship (2010), IBM Ph.D. Student Scholarship (2012), and Schlumberger Ph.D. Student Fellowship (2013). My dissertation received the best 2015 Ph.D. thesis award at Rice University’s ECE department.