Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh is an Iranian academic who is an associate professor at University College London. She was made a Senior Fellow at the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2022. Early life and education. Sadrzadeh is from Iran. She received her undergraduate degree at Sharif University of Technology. After earning her bachelor's degree Sadrzadeh moved to Canada. She was a doctoral researcher at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where she was awarded a Canada Female Doctoral Student Award. Her research considered epistemic logic. Alongside earning her doctorate, Sadrzadeh moved to the University of Oxford as an EPSRC  postdoctoral fellow. Research and career. In 2011, Sadrzadeh was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Career Acceleration Fellowship. She was appointed to the faculty at Queen Mary University of London, where she started studying how language works. 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, combining logic, statistics and machine learning to strengthen the information from textual data. She was awarded two industrial fellowships from the Royal Academy of Engineering, 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. 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. In 2022, she was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Fellowship.