Dr. Reza Ghanadan joined DARPA in 2013 as a program manager in the Defense Sciences Office. He has interests in data analytics, autonomy, machine learning and artificial intelligence in information and cyber-physical systems. At DARPA, he has been investigating the mathematical foundations and applications of these technologies to complex science and engineering problems, ranging from precision genomics and neuroscience, to robotics and human-machine collaboration.
Prior to joining DARPA, Dr. Ghanadan spent 18 years in industry, in both start-up and large research and development organizations in the defense and commercial markets. He led programs across diverse engineering domains, including: information sciences; adaptive autonomous systems; data analytics, tactical communication; ISR and EW systems; cognitive and machine learning algorithms; communications and networking; 4G mobile wireless technology; modeling and simulation of complex multi-modal systems; mathematical systems theory, control and optimization algorithms.
Dr. Ghanadan came to DARPA from the Boeing Company, where he was a Boeing technical fellow and advanced information technologist in Boeing’s Research and Technology Division, involved in several DARPA and Office of Naval Research programs. Before that, he was technical director for Networks and Information Processing domain at BAE Systems, where he pioneered programs in information and communications technologies. In 2000, he was a founding team member of Flarion Technologies, a start-up that designed and demonstrated the first commercial 4G wireless Internet technology and was later acquired by Qualcomm, Inc. From 1995 to 2000, he was a member of the technical staff at AT&T/Lucent Bell Laboratories.
Dr. Ghanadan was named a Boeing technical fellow in 2010 and a BAE engineering and scientific fellow in 2008. He received the Boeing Technology Innovation Challenge award, BAE’s Gold Chairman’s Award for Innovation and several Bell Labs project awards for outstanding achievements. He is a fellow of the National Engineering Honor Society (Tau Beta Pi).
He received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in electrical engineering, all from University of Maryland, College Park. He also received an executive Master of Business Administration degree from the New York University Stern School of Business.
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