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Dr Sadrzadeh is one of eight researchers from across the UK to be recognised this year by the Royal Academy of Engineering, as it announces new industry-academia partnerships to address major engineering challenges.

Her research is in developing logical and mathematical models that can improve machine learning of text. In particular, she鈥檚 developing ways to incorporate tensors, an algebraic concept originally devised for the field of quantum mechanics, to help bridge the gap between different fields of logic to more fully represent natural language mathematically.

With the fellowship, she will build on her existing partnership with Cambridge Quantum and BBC Research & Development to further develop her mathematical models.

Dr Sadrzadeh received her Bachelor鈥檚 degree in Software Engineering and her Master鈥檚 in Logic from Sharif University in Tehran, Iran. She received her PhD from the University of Quebec and joined UCL鈥檚 Faculty of Engineering in 2019.

Commenting on her election, she said: 鈥淚 am immensely grateful and feel inundated and empowered that such a prominent and impactful fellowship of engineers is supporting my research. The support from the Dean of Engineering, Head of Computer Science and UCL's research funding office has been remarkable. I could not have done this without their help and the help of my industrial partners.鈥�

The Academy鈥檚 Research Chairs and Senior Research Fellowships scheme provides academics pursuing promising, industry-relevant research with five-year partnership positions with a business partner to establish a research group around their work.

This year鈥檚 honourees consist of three Senior Research Fellows and five Research Chairs.

Karen Holford, Chair of the Academy鈥檚 Research Committee said: 鈥淚 remain endlessly impressed at just how creative engineers are at investigating solutions to real-world problems and these projects will deliver societal benefit not only in the UK but also globally,鈥� said. 鈥淭he partnerships that support innovative engineering like this are vital to our future health and prosperity and the Academy values them very highly.鈥�

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• UCL Department of Computer Science

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• Photo of Dr听Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh Credit:听Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

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