Amin Karbasi and Mehraveh Salehi win 2nd Place Bell Labs Prize
Amin Karbasi and Mehraveh Salehi win 2nd Place Bell Labs Prize
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
YINS members Amin Karbasi, associate professor of electrical engineering, and Mehraveh Salehi (Ph.D. ’19, Electrical Engineering) won second place at Nokia’s Bell Labs Prize for their work on understanding how information flows in the human brain based on different cognitive tasks. The team says their innovation makes a concrete connection between artificial intelligence and natural intelligence.
Amin Karbasi leads the Inference, Information, and Decision Systems Group at YINS.
Mehraveh Salehi received her Ph.D. from Yale in 2019 and is now the Chief Experience Officer at Summary Analytics in Seattle, WA.