Rozhina Ghanavi
- I am a PhD student at MIT and MIT Sloan.
- My most recent research focuses on the Economics of Privacy, Healthcare, and Education.
- I am an MIT Presidential Fellow 2024.
- I like to call myself a scientist! A quantitative one
- I have broad science interests and have spent some time exploring them. Now, I am passionate about Industrial Organization, the Economics of privacy, education, health, AI and quantitative Marketing. I like using structural models, machine learning, maths, and statistics tools to solve problems in social sciences.
- At MIT, I am fortunate to be working on so many exciting questions with Catherine Tucker
- Before my PhD, I spent some time at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, working with brilliant professors and researchers like Avi Goldfarb and Ryan Webb.
We focus on how to use uncertainty to improve AI adoption in home-sharing platforms.
- I have done research works in generative models, natural language processing (NLP), MCMC and sampling methods, and reinforcement learning. In another life, I was working on the next generation of telecommunication approaches (5G at the time).
- I am interested in impactful research and projects.
- If you have similar interests and have a project that I can help with or collaborate on, do not hesitate to contact me via email or DM on Twitter. (rozhina dot ghanavi at rotman dot utoronto dot ca).
- Not all of my research works are published, but the few of them that are published can be found here on my scholar page
- Previously I was a researcher at TDMDAL, Finhub, and Rotman school of Management.
- I spent some time at Cohere as a machine learning researcher, where I trained large representational language models.
- I got my Masters from the University of Toronto in 2021, where I was advised by Professor Ben Liang. I did research under supervision of Alireza Makhzani at Vector Institute.
- I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Tehran. I was advised by amazing Maryam Sabbaghian.
- I did an internship at Carleton University, and I was privileged to work with Halim Yanikomeroglu
Education
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Master of Sciences, University of Toronto
- Bachelor of Sciences, University of Tehran
Professional Experience