Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh Explained

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
Birth Place:Iran
Workplaces:Queen Mary University of London
University College London
Alma Mater:Université du Québec à Montréal
Sharif University of Technology
Thesis Title:Actions and resources in epistemic logic.
Thesis Url:http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/245555533
Thesis Year:2007
Doctoral Advisor:Mathieu Marion
Alexandru Baltag

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh is an Iranian British academic who is a professor at University College London. She was awarded a senior research fellowship at the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2022.[1]

Early life and education

Sadrzadeh is from Iran. She received her undergraduate and master's degrees at Sharif University of Technology.[2] After earning her master's degree Sadrzadeh moved to Canada. She was a doctoral researcher first at the University of Ottawa, where she was awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship, a University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship, and a Canada Female Doctoral Student Award, and then at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her research considered epistemic logic.[3] Alongside earning her doctorate, Sadrzadeh moved to the University of Oxford as an EPSRC postdoctoral fellow.[4]

Research and career

In 2011, Sadrzadeh was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Career Acceleration Fellowship.[5] She was appointed to the faculty at Queen Mary University of London, where she combined statistical and logical methods to study how language works.[6]

Whilst machine learning can improve reasoning about textual data, systems making use of machine learning cannot be translated to all applications. Sadrzadeh develops tensor-based mathematical models to improve these processes by combining logic, statistics and machine learning to strengthen the information from textual data. These models are based on the DisCoCat framework that she introduced with Bob Coecke and Stephen Clark. She was awarded two industrial fellowships from the Royal Academy of Engineering,[7] which allowed her to build partnerships with the BBC. In particular she concentrated on the development of tensorial analysis for textual understanding of subtitles and news.[8] At the time it was estimated that the average adult spends about one and a half years of their lives trying to device what to watch on broadcasting platforms. Sadrzadeh looks to improve the quality and accuracy of recommendation algorithms.[9]

Sadrzadeh is involved in the conference SemSpace (Semantic Spaces at the Intersection of NLP, Physics, and Cognitive Science). In 2020, Sadrzadeh gave a talk "Gaussianity and typicality in matrix distributional semantics"[10] [11] and in 2021 she was co-organiser.[12] [13] In 2022, Sadrzadeh was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Fellowship.[14]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Royal Academy of Engineering awards Senior Research Fellowship to UCL academic . 2023-05-20 . University College London (UCL) . en.
  2. Web site: Quantum Linguistics - Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh . 2022-03-26 . Goldsmiths, University of London . en.
  3. Actions and resources in epistemic logic. . Library and Archives Canada . 2007 . Ottawa . English . Mehrnoosh . Sadrzadeh. 245555533 .
  4. Web site: EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship awarded - University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science . English. 2023-05-21.
  5. Web site: Foundational Structures for Compositional Meaning at UKRI.
  6. Web site: Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh . 2022-03-26 . The Conversation . en.
  7. Web site: Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh awarded industrial fellowship. 2023-05-20 . Royal Academy of Engineering . en.
  8. Web site: Dr Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh Industrial Fellow and Associate Professor (Reader) within the Department of Computer Science at UCL. .
  9. Enhancing Personalised Recommendations with the Use of Multimodal Information. IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia. 10.1109/ISM52913.2021.00037 . 245867512 . 2023-05-20. en.
  10. Gaussianity and typicality in matrix distributional semantics. SemSpace 2020. . 2023-05-20. en.
  11. Web site: SemSpace 2020. 2023-05-20. en.
  12. Web site: SemSpace 2021 Proceedings. 2023-05-20. en.
  13. Web site: SemSpace 2021. 2023-05-20. en.
  14. Web site: New industry-academia partnerships announced to address major engineering challenges . 20 August 2024.