Nazanin Makkinejad, PhD, is a GenAI Solutions Architect at Google, with prior experience as a Senior Applied Machine Learning Engineer at Snorkel AI, where expertise was applied to healthcare and life-sciences applications. Makkinejad's research background includes postdoctoral fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, focusing on deep learning and brain image analysis. Educationally, Makkinejad holds a PhD in Biomedical/Medical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, a Master's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Chicago, and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. Additional roles include machine learning summer associate at JPMorgan Chase & Co., adjunct lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and research and teaching assistant positions at various academic institutions.