Arash Niknafs, Ph.D., CISSP
Arash is a Lead Senior Data Scientist in Microsoft Canada. He works in the Mixed Really Apps team. Prior to that Arash was a Senior Data Scientist in EA (Electronic Arts) Canada. He joined the industry in 2015 after graduating from the University of Calgary with a PhD in Computer Science where his research focused on the applications of AI in Operations Research. His passion about data and AI sciences started growing in 2007 when he read the book "The Third Wave" by Alvin Toffler. Since then, he has done research and applied AI and ML methods in e-commerce, management, security, education, and software feature design and engineering.