Samaneh Movassaghi

Samy Movassaghi, PhD, currently serves as a Distinguished Principal AI Scientist and Technical Lead for Strategic Investment Pillars at Vanguard, where leadership of a team of Principal and Senior Machine Learning engineers focuses on optimizing data-driven decisions. Prior roles include mentorship at deeplearning.ai and a Research Fellow and Software Engineer at Google, where significant advancements in deep learning for image classification and reinforcement learning for network optimization were achieved. Additional advisory positions at various companies and academic roles at multiple universities encompass a robust background in technical advisement and education, alongside an impressive educational trajectory with degrees from esteemed institutions, including a PhD in Computer Science from The Australian National University and ongoing Executive Business Leadership education at Stanford University.