Hajiaghayi Podcast

This is an Instagram Live on Sat March 12, 2022 1:30pm EDT (in English) of Professor Mohammad Hajiaghayi with Professor Ming Lin of UMD. We talk about life, US vs Taiwan education, pros and cons of being department chair, hiring process, robotics, Virtual Reality, Virtual Try-On, startup, autonomous driving, and many more. Join future lives if you can at @mhajiaghayi and subscribe at YouTube channel @hajiaghayi.

#robotics#autonomousdriving#VirtualReality#VirtualTryOn#startup#Taiwanv.s.US#cs#departmentchair#instagram

Bio of Prof. Ming C. Lin: She received her B.S., M.S., Ph.D. in EECS from University of California, Berkeley. She is a Distinguished University Professor, Barry Mersky and Capital One Endowed Professor, and former Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science at University of Maryland at College Park, as well as John & Louise Parker Distinguished Professor Emerita at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also an Amazon Scholar. She has received several honors and awards, including NSF Young Faculty Career Award, UNC Hettleman Award for Scholarly Achievements, Beverly W. Long Distinguished Term Professor, IEEE VGTC VR Technical Achievement Award, Washington Academy of Sciences Distinguished Career Award and several best paper awards. She is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, Eurographics, and SIGGRAPH Academy. She is an elected Fellow by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

SECOND LIVE: Sun April 17, 11AM ET, we, Dr Yahya Tabesh (see https://lnkd.in/d4quAFmE and his short bio below) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD had an Instagram Live at @mhajiaghayi (in Persian) regarding Education memories and experiences in math & computer science in Sharif University and Stanford University

(خاطرات و تجربیات آموزشی در ریاضی‌ و علوم کامپیوتر), especially Dr Tabesh's book "Silicon Valley'' in Persian (download the .pdf file FOR FREE at https://drive.google.com/file/d/13FrGQeYOar5nqzTN-t8OduA-AvIzrj0n/view), his startup LetsMod focusing on math and cs education to k12, startup cultures, Dr. Tabesh's wishes, Fields medal and Iranian Fields medalists Profs. Mirzakhani and Birkar, and much more

#SiloconValley#Book#LetsMod#startup#culture#education#math#computerscience#k12#olympiad#SharifUniversity#Iran#Wish#FieldsMedal#Mirzakhani#Birkar

Bio: Dr. Yahya Tabesh is co-founder of LetsMod. He served as a Distinguished Faculty at the Sharif University of Technology, where he also served as the Chairman of the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Computing Center.

He used to be a member of the high council in informatics and the high council of education for many years. Dr. Tabesh used to be director of math and computer Olympiads in Iran for 12 years. Dr. Tabesh was in charge of the curriculum development of the 12th grade also he was the co-founder of the Isfahan Math House and Schoolnet, a portal for K12 students and teachers. Dr. Tabesh joined Stanford University as a visiting professor in 2012 where he stayed till 2016. At Stanford, Dr. Tabesh worked on a cognitive learning system that ended with an interactive problem-solving platform. He co-founded the Let’s Mod startup company in Silicon Valley to develop the platform to decentralize creativity. He won the Erdős international award in 2010 for his sustained and distinguished contribution to the enrichment of math and computer education.

Are you an entrepreneur and founding a startup? Do you want to know answers to why startups fail, issues related to hiring, valuation, funding, NSF funding through SBIR, nation ICorps, slide deck, business plan, competition, and many more startup questions from a professional startup coach? You can hear all answers on this video (recorded on Sun March 27, 10:30AM ET) as we, David Powell of DLPIBC, LLC Consulting Firm (see his linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-powell-8a0a751/ and his short bio below) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD had an Instagram Live at @mhajiaghayi (in English).

David Powell has been a professional startup coach at several universities in the past 8 years and run different businesses in the past 44 years. Please join if you can (and ask questions).

#Startup#Entrepreneur#StartupCoach#StartupFunding#StartupFailures#NSF#ICorps#SBIR#Hiring#CustomerTraction#SlideDeck#Competition# Instagram

BIO: David Powell is Principal of DLPIBC, LLC, an international

consulting firm, helping companies to promote their products and services in new markets and to increase revenue share in existing markets.

David Powell Various Adjunct/Mentor Activities: -

* Entrepreneur in Residence, University of Maryland 2022

* GWU/KIC Start Lean Innovation, 2016 – present – Lead Mentor

* Co-Program Director & Lead Mentor GWU/Korea Start Lean Innovation 2019

* Virginia Innovation Commercialization Assistance Program (ICAP), George Mason SBDC

* National Science Foundation I-Corp Program, GMU, GWU, UMD

* Korean Innovation Center, Jump Accelerator

* George Mason University Summer Entrepreneurship Accelerator

* AccelerateDC Mentor Program – Washington DC

* Advisory board member − George Washington University, Virginia Campus (1996 to 2006)

* Advisory board member − Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute (1998 to 2002)

This is the video of the live Instagram between Professor Mohammad Hajiaghayi and Kooshiar Azimian broadcasted on Feb 6, 2022, 1:3pm EDT. Kooshiar asks Professor Hajiaghayi several questions regarding his's life, research, way of thinking, experience with different companies and Professor Hajiaghayi answers them.

Sun April 10, 11AM ET, we, Dr Yahya Tabesh (see https://lnkd.in/d4quAFmE and his short bio below) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD had an Instagram Live at @mhajiaghayi (in Persian) regarding Education memories and experiences in math & computer science in Sharif University (Iran)

(خاطرات و تجربیات آموزشی در ریاضی‌ و علوم کامپیوتر), including starting Olympiads, doctoral programs in math, house of mathematics, study abroad, remembering Prof. Mirzakhani, and much more

#education #math #computerscience #k12 #olympiad#SharifUniversity#Iran#StudyAbroad#Mirzakhani

Bio: Dr. Yahya Tabesh is co-founder of LetsMod. He served as a Distinguished Faculty at the Sharif University of Technology, where he also served as the Chairman of the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Computing Center.

He used to be a member of the high council in informatics and the high council of education for many years. Dr. Tabesh used to be director of math and computer Olympiads in Iran for 12 years. Dr. Tabesh was in charge of the curriculum development of the 12th grade also he was the co-founder of the Isfahan Math House and Schoolnet, a portal for K12 students and teachers. Dr. Tabesh joined Stanford University as a visiting professor in 2012 where he stayed till 2016. At Stanford, Dr. Tabesh worked on a cognitive learning system that ended with an interactive problem-solving platform. He co-founded the Let’s Mod startup company in Silicon Valley to develop the platform to decentralize creativity. He won the Erdős international award in 2010 for his sustained and distinguished contribution to the enrichment of math and computer education.

Sat March 19, 1:30PM ET, we, Prof. Dinesh Manocha of UMD (see his page at https://www.cs.umd.edu/people/dmanocha and his short bio below) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD had an Instagram Live at @mhajiaghayi (in English).

We talk about life and hot-topics in Metaverse, Virtual and Augmented Reality and 3D Computer Graphics, Robotics, Amazon, Self-Driving Cars, which are Prof. Manocha's expertise.

BIO: Dinesh Manocha is the Paul Chrisman Iribe Chair in Computer Science & Electrical and Computer Engineering and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland College Park. He is also the Phi Delta Theta/Matthew Mason Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. He has won many awards, including Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, the NSF Career Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, Google Faculty Awards, Facebook Faculty Awards, Alibaba Innovation Awards, and the Hettleman Prize for scholarly achievement. His research interests include multi-agent simulation, virtual environments, artificial intelligence, and robotics. His group has developed a number of packages for multi-agent simulation, GPU computing, and physics-based simulation that have been used by hundreds of thousands of users and licensed to more than 60 commercial vendors. He has published more than 640 papers and supervised more than 40 PhD dissertations. He is an inventor of 14 patents, several of which have been licensed to industry. His work has been covered by the New York Times, NPR, Boston Globe, Washington Post, ZDNet, as well as DARPA Legacy Press Release. He is a Fellow of AAAI, AAAS, ACM, and IEEE, member of ACM SIGGRAPH Academy, and received Bézier Award from Solid Modeling Association. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Delhi and the Distinguished Career in Computer Science Award from Washington Academy of Sciences. He was a co-founder of Impulsonic, a developer of physics-based audio simulation technologies, which was acquired by Valve Inc in November 2016. See http://www.cs.umd.edu/~dm

#Metaverse#VirtualReality#Robotics#Amazon#SelfDrivingCars#Startup#AugmentedReality#3DGraphics#Instagram

Tue, April 5, 5:00PM ET, we, Prof. Aleksander Madry of MIT (see his MIT page at https://people.csail.mit.edu/madry/ and his short bio below) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD had an Instagram Live at @mhajiaghayi (in English).

We talked about life, MIT admission, citation counts, parenting, Industry vs Academia, advise for high-school students, and hot-topics in DEEP-LEARNING such as adversarial attacks, robust systems, ML Features, Network Flow as well as the intersection of ML and theoretical CS which are Prof. Madry's expertise.

BIO: Aleksander Madry is the Cadence Design Systems Professor of Computing at MIT, leads the MIT Center for Deployable Machine Learning as well as is a faculty co-lead for the MIT AI Policy Forum. His research interests span algorithms, continuous optimization, and understanding machine learning from robustness and deployability perspectives.

Professor Madry's work has been recognized with a number of awards, including an NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, an ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, and Presburger Award. He received his PhD from MIT in 2011 and, prior to joining the MIT faculty, he spent time at Microsoft Research New England and on the faculty of EPFL.

#MIT#Admission#Citation#Deep#ML#Attack#Robust#Features#NetworkFlow#MLvsTheory#IndustryvsAcademia#Parenting#Highschool#Instagram

On Sun MAR 6, 10:30AM EDT, we, Alireza Farhadi (IOI Silver Medalist), Peyman Jabbarzade (IOI Bronze Medalist), Saeed Seddigihin (IOI Silver Medalist) and myself, Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi (IOI Silver Medalist), talk about Olympiad, effect in life, life before, during and after Olympiad, Computer Olympiad preparation, IQvsEQ, Industry relation, and other issues related to Olympiad in an INSTAGRAM LIVE AT @mhajiaghayi (in PERSIAN).

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#Olympiad #IOI#life#IQvsEQ #industy #research #instagram

This is an Instagram Live on Sat March 5, 2022 1:30pm EDT (in English) of Professor Mohammad Hajiaghayi with Professor Richard Cole of NYU. We talk about life, US vs UK higher education systems, graduate (Ph.D.) admission, as well as ,algorithmic game theory, market equilibrium, market clearance, truthful auctions, and parallel PRAM algorithms vs Spark/MapReduce algorithms. Join future lives if you can at @mhajiaghayi

#gametheory#spark#admission#UKv.s.US#market#equilibrium

This is the video of the live Instagram between Professor Mohammad Hajiaghayi and Iman Khoraminezhad from "My Life Story" podcast broadcasted on April 30, 2022, 11:30pm EDT (in Persian). Iman asks Professor Hajiaghayi several questions regarding his life, research, way of thinking, miracle in life, definition of happiness, advice for youth, ultimate goals, experience with different companies and academia and Professor Hajiaghayi answers them.

#life #research #thinking #miracle #happiness #advice #goals #experience #industry #academia #olympiad #Sharif #Waterloo #MIT #NODET #StudyAbroad