Mahsa Mohaghegh
Mahsa McCauley (Mohaghegh) | |
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| Other names | McCauley |
| Alma mater | Massey University |
| Occupation(s) | Director, Engineer, Scientist at Auckland University of Technology |
| Known for | Founder of She Sharp & Director of Women in Technology at AUT |
Mahsa Mohaghegh (McCauley) is an Iranian-born New Zealand computer engineer specialising in artificial intelligence and natural language processing.[1] She is a professor of information technology and software engineering at Auckland University of Technology.[2]
Biography
[edit]Mohaghegh grew up in Iran.[3] She completed a bachelor of computer engineering, and a masters in computer architecture, and in 2013 she completed a doctorate in computer engineering at Massey University.[2][4][5] In February 2017 she was appointed a lecturer at Auckland University of Technology.[6]
Since 2013 she has been involved with Google’s Computer Science for High Schools programme and runs workshops in Auckland.[7]
Mohaghegh founded a women's networking group called She# (She Sharp) to encourage girls and young women to engage with digital industries.[8]
Awards
[edit]In 2013 Mohaghegh won the Emerging Leader category at the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards.[8] In 2018 she was one of ten finalists for the New Zealander of the Year Award and also won the Auckland University Of Technology Vice-Chancellor Diversity Award for the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies.[1][9][10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Dr. Mahsa Mohaghegh – Auckland University Of Technology". www.asbwaterfronttheatre.co.nz. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ a b "Mahsa Mohaghegh". Curious Minds, He Hihiri i te Mahara. 7 May 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ "Seeds: Dr. Mahsa Mohaghegh on founding She# and connecting Women in Tech". seeds.libsyn.com. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ Massey University, New Zealand. "My Doctoral Story - Mahsa Mohaghegh (2013)". www.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ Mohaghegh, Mahsa (2012). English-Persian phrase-based statistical machine translation : enhanced models, search and training (Doctoral thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/4703.
- ^ "Mahsa Mohaghegh - AUT". www.aut.ac.nz. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
- ^ "AUT Lecturer Says Digital Curriculum is Not About Devices". www.scoop.co.nz. 6 November 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
- ^ a b "Women of Influence alumni: Mahsa Mohaghegh". Stuff. 7 August 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ "Mahsa Mohaghegh". techfutureslab. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ "Semi-finalists for 2018 New Zealander of the Year named". nzawards.org.nz. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
External links
[edit]- Mahsa Mohaghegh publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Publications by Mahsa Mohaghegh at ResearchGate
- Mahsa Mohaghegh on LinkedIn
- https://academics.aut.ac.nz/mahsa.mohaghegh/about
- https://shesharp.org.nz/about-us/meet-our-team/
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