Hajiaghayi Podcast

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We are pleased to invite you to a LIVE distinguished YouTube panel discussion on strategic career pathways for emerging scholars in computer science. This session, “Pathways to Success: Job Market Strategies for Ph.D. Students and Postdocs in Computer Science,” on NOVEMBER 10 (Sunday), 11am ET, brings together esteemed leaders to provide insights and guidance on navigating career choices, whether in academia, research labs, or industry.Potential Discussion Topics:____________________________Career Path & Decision-Making: Insights into choosing between academia, industry, and research labs, and the key factors influencing these decisions.Application Process & Preparation: Guidance on creating impactful applications, the role of publications, and tips for writing effective teaching and research statements.Interviewing & Negotiation: Common interview questions, advice on salary and start-up package negotiations, and factors to consider for long-term success.Academia vs. Industry: A comparison of growth opportunities, work-life balance, and career progression across different sectors.Long-Term Success & Networking: Strategies for building professional networks, finding mentors, and initiating collaborations.Our Distinguished Panelists:____________________________Prof. Lance Fortnow, Dean of the College of Computing at the Illinois Institute of Technology, former Dean of Science at IIT, and past Chair of the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech, renowned for his contributions to computational complexity.Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Professor at the University of Maryland and Research Scientist at Google, with prior employment at Amazon, Overstock, AT&T, and Microsoft, recognized for his expertise in algorithms and game theory.Dr. Nicole Immorlica, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and former faculty member at Northwestern University, celebrated for her pioneering work at the intersection of economics and computation.Prof. Samir Khuller, Peter and Adrienne Barris Chair of Computer Science at Northwestern University, and former Chair of the CS Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, known for his expertise in graph algorithms and discrete optimization.This panel offers a unique opportunity for early-career researchers to gain valuable perspectives on navigating the job market, building successful careers, and making informed decisions that align with their professional goals.Please join us and ask questions online.

Are you or your children interested in competitive programming? This week, Mohammad Hajiaghayi (YouTube @hajiaghayi), IOI'97 Silver Medalist and Minker Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Colin Galen (YouTube at @ColinGalen), USACO'19 Finalist and ICPC NAC'23 Silver Medalist, will have a YouTube Live to discuss the stages of competitive programming contests like IOI and ICPC—BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER.Join us THIS SUNDAY OCTOBER 29, 11AM ET for a LIVE discussion on both YouTube channels @hajiaghayi and @ColinGalen. Feel free to participate and ask questions on either channel. #IOI, #ICPC, #codeforces, #programmingcontest, #competitiveprogramming, #beforeafter, #during, #MIT, #UMD

On Monday May 15, 11AM ET, we, Nishan Subedi (LinkedIn at https://lnkd.in/gm9fuBAf) and Dr. Mohammad Hajiaghayi (LinkedIn at https://lnkd.in/gE7W98FV) plan to have the monthly (on third Mon of each month) YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Lives on Instagram at @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitte MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook Mohammad Hajiaghayi regarding ``Potentials of E-commerce for Retails: ChatGPT, rise of LLMs and future of AI''.In this eighth installment of Monetization Monthly, we continue our deep dive (from the previous installment) into discuss:- Underlying mechanism of ChatGPT training- Use cases for LLMs- Fine tuning - Prompt engineering- multi-modal fine tuning vs prompt engineering- Sleep dreams and GPT- GPT-4- How will AI and how it's drive evolve in the future- How can we leverage AI to set up your organization for successPlease join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have from us.#llms #chatgpt #gpt4 #marketplace #uber #lyft #doordash #amazon #ecommerce #online #retail #advertisement #pandamic #Covid #Uber #Lyft #DoorDash #Amazon #Wayfair #Overstock #Etsy #Google

Very Glad to announce this Sun Apr 9, 11AM ET, I, Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD, will have a live discussion with Prof. Shree Nayar of Columbia University who is a pioneer in computer vision and computational imaging. Prof. Nayaris has been the director of research at Snap Inc. and the recipient of several scientific awards such as Packard Fellowship, IEEE PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award, the Funai Achievement Award, a fellow of several societies and member of several honorary academies such as NAE, NAI, AAA&S (see his wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shree_K._Nayar for more details). We plan to have a YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Live events on Instagram @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook @Mohammad Hajiaghayi on life, and his research and teaching on computer vision, including novel camera development, physics-based models, and image analysis algorithms, as well as their Ph.D. advising, involvement in national academies, major open problems in the field, and practical applications in areas such as imaging, computer vision, robotics, virtual and augmented reality, and human-computer interfaces. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have.Also visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf0WB91t8Ky6AuYcQV0CcLwfor first Principles of Computer Vision which is a lecture series presented by Prof. Shree Nayar. The series focuses on the physical and mathematical underpinnings of vision and has been designed for students, practitioners, and enthusiasts who have no prior knowledge of computer vision. #ComputerVision, #ComputerScience,#CS,#Vision, #ComputationalCameras, #ShapeReconstruction, #Interreflections,#3Dscanning,#ML,#MultiSpectralImaging,#ReflectanceModeling,#OpenProblems,#NationalAcademy,#PhDAdvising,#Columbia

Very Glad to announce this Sun Apr 2, 11AM ET, I, Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD, will have a live discussion with Prof. David Shmoys of Cornell University who is a pioneer in optimization, operations research, and algorithms. Prof. Shmoys has had more than 30 students and 100 descendants. He is the recipient of several scientific awards including INFORMS Wagner Prize, INFORMS Lanchester Prize, Khachiyan Prize a fellow of several societies such as INFORMS, ACM, and SIAM (see his wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S... for more details). We plan to have a YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Live events on Instagram @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook @Mohammad Hajiaghayi on life, David's research and teaching on applying operations research and optimization to computer science, the distinctions and commonality between applied mathematics, operations research, and computer science, major open problems in the field, his great experience on advising Ph.D. students, among other things. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have.#computerscience,#CS,#OR,#appliedmath,#optimization, #algorithms, #industry,#administration,#OpenProblems,#PhDAdvising,#Cornell, #MIT

Today Mar 21, 11AM ET, we, Nishan Subedi (LinkedIn at https://lnkd.in/gm9fuBAf) and Dr. Mohammad Hajiaghayi (LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-hajiaghayi-2139a913a/) plan to have the monthly (on third Mon of each month) YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Lives on Instagram at @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitte MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook Mohammad Hajiaghayi regarding ``Potentials of E-commerce for Retails: ChatGPT, rise of LLMs and future of AI''.In this seventh installment of Monetization Monthly, we take a deep dive into discuss:- Underlying mechanism of ChatGPT training- Use cases for LLMs- GPT-4- How will AI and how it's drive evolve in the future- How can we leverage AI to set up your organization for successPlease join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have from us.#llms #chatgpt #gpt4 #marketplace #uber #lyft #doordash #amazon #ecommerce #online #retail #advertisement #pandamic #Covid #Uber #Lyft #DoorDash #Amazon #Wayfair #Overstock #Etsy #Google

Very Glad to announce this Sun Feb 19, 11AM ET, I, Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD, will have a live discussion with Prof. Moshe Vardi of Rice University who is a pioneer in logic, complexity, and algorithms. Prof. Moshe Vardi @vardi has authored over 700 papers, two books, and holds eight honorary doctorates. He is the recipient of several scientific awards, a fellow of several societies and member of several honorary academies. He is a Senior Editor of Communications of the ACM, and has received Guggenheim, Kanellakis, Godel, and Knuth Prizes (see his wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Vardi for more details). We plan to have a YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Live events on Instagram @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook @Mohammad Hajiaghayi on life, communication of ACM, and his research and teaching on applications of logic to computer science, including database theory, finite model theory, knowledge in multi-agent systems, computer-aided verification and reasoning, Ph.D. advising, major open problems in the field, among others. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have.#computerscience,#CS,#logic,#database,#multiagent, #reasoning, #computeraided, #verification, administration,#CACM,#OpenProblems,#NationalAcademy,#PhDAdvising,#Hebrew,#Rice

Very Glad to announce this Sun Jan 29, 11AM ET, I, Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD, will have a live discussion with Dr. Robert Schapire of Microsoft Research (formerly a Professor at Princeton U.) who is a pioneer in theoretical and applied machine learning. Dr. Robert Schapire is a recipient of the Gödel Prize, the Paris Kanellakis Award, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the AAAI (see his wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schapire for more details). We plan to have a YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Live events on Instagram @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook @Mohammad Hajiaghayi on life, national academies, industry labs, research on theoretical and applied ML, adaboost, convex analysis, major open problems in the field, among others. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have.#ML,#computerscience,#CS,#learning,#algorithms,#Adaboost, #convexanalysis,#gametheory,#NationalAcademy,#AT&TLabs,#Princeton,#MSR,#Microsoft

Very Glad to announce this Sun Jan 15, 11AM ET, I, Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD, will have a live discussion with Prof. Zvi Galil of GeorgiaTech who is a pioneer in algorithms, complexity, and cryptography. Prof. Galil has served as chair of the computer science departments at Tel Aviv University and Columbia University; dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science at Columbia University and the College of Computing at Georgia Tech; and president of Tel Aviv University. He is a fellow of the ACM and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering (see his wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvi_Galil for more details). We plan to have a YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Live events on Instagram @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook @Mohammad Hajiaghayi on life, online courses and MOOCs, great administrative experience both as the chair and the dean at top universities, his research on algorithms, complexity, cryptography, Ph.D. Advising, Major Open Problems in the field, among others. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have.#computerscience,#CS,#MOOCs,#admistration,#dean,#algorithms,#complexity,#cryptography#NationalAcademy,#PhDAdvising,#TelAviv,#Columbia,#GaTech

This Mon Dec 19, 11AM ET, we, Nishan Subedi, (see his LinkedIn at https://lnkd.in/gm9fuBAf) and Dr. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of Overstock and UMD plan to have the monthly (on third Mon of each month) YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Lives on Instagram at @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook Mohammad Hajiaghayi regarding ``Potentials of E-commerce for Retails''. In this sixth installment of Monetization Monthly, we take a deep dive into architecture of systems to power multi-sided marketplaces, performance and algorithm considerations, some approaches to scalability. We will talk about how these systems have been architected, dealing with high demand, network effects and their impact. We will also talk about that lead to better efficiencies. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have from us.#marketplace #networkeffect #uber #lyft #doordash #amazon #ecommerce #online #retail #advertisement #pandamic #Covid #Uber #Lyft #DoorDash #Amazon #Wayfair #Overstock #Etsy #Google

Very Glad to announce this Sun Dec 11, 11AM ET, I, Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD, will have a live discussion with Prof. Mihalis Yannakakis of Columbia University (and Stanford University before) who is a pioneer in complexity, optimization, game theory, and databases. Prof. Yannakakis is a recipient of the Knuth Prize, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the ACM, and a Bell Labs Fellow (see his wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihalis_Yannakakis for more details). We plan to have a YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Live events on Instagram @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook @Mohammad Hajiaghayi on life, industry labs, research on algorithms, complexity, optimization, game theory, databases, testing, and verification, Ph.D. Advising, Major Open Problems in the field, among others. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have.#computerscience,#CS,#algorithms,#complexity,#optimization,#gametheory,#databases,#testing,#verification,#NationalAcademy,#PhDAdvising,#Bell-labs,#Stanford,#Columbia

This Sun Nov 20 , 11AM ET, I, Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD, will have a live discussion with Prof. V.S. Subrahmanian, an AAAI and AAAS Fellow, who is also Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Buffet Faculty Fellow in the Buffet Institute of Global Affairs at Northwestern University. Prof. Subrahmanian is one of the world's foremost experts at the intersection of AI and security issues who pioneered the development of machine learning and AI-based techniques for security problems. He has written eight books, edited ten, and published over 300 refereed articles. His work has been featured in numerous outlets such as the Baltimore Sun, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Science, Nature, the Washington Post, American Public Media and more. (see his page at https://lnkd.in/eCWjfSCW). We plan to have a YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Live events on Instagram @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook @Mohammad Hajiaghayi of life, research on ML and AI techniques to analyze and generate forecasts of various types of outcomes for counter-terrorism, cybersecurity, text, geospatial, and social network based data, administrative work, being an editor for Science, major research challenges in the field. We talk about cyber security issues relevant to current situation in IRAN as well. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have. #AI,#Security,#CyberSecurity,#GameTheory,#CS,#counter-terrorism,#social-network,#Northwestern,#mahsaamini,#kianpirfalak

This Sun Oct 2, 7PM ET (an unusual time due to time difference), we, Prof. Minoru Asada of Osaka University (Japan). He is a co-founder of ROBOCUP competitions. He was the Research Director of the Japan Science and Technology Agency Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology ASADA Synergistic Intelligence Project in 2005 and 2012. In 2012, the Japan Society for Promotion of Science named him to serve as the Research Leader for the Specially Promoted Research Project (Tokusui) on Constructive Developmental Science Based on Understanding theProcess From Neuro-Dynamics to Social Interaction. He also received 2001 Commendation by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, And Technology, Japan Government as Persons of Distinguished Services to Enlighten People on Science and Technology(see his wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_... for more details) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD plan to have a YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Live events on Instagram @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook @Mohammad Hajiaghayi of life, research on robotics, Robocup, neuroscience, administrative work, Ph.D. Advising in Japan, Major research challenges in the field. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have.#mahsaamini #womanlifefreedom #Robocup #Robotics #computerscience #CS #neuroscience #PhDAdvising #Japan

This Mon Oct 17, 11AM ET, we, Nishan Subedi, (see his linkedin at https://lnkd.in/gm9fuBAf) and Dr. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of Overstock and UMD plan to have the monthly (on third Mon of each month) YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Lives on Instagram at @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook Mohammad Hajiaghayi regarding ``Potentials of E-commerce for Retails''. In this fifth installment of Monetization Monthly, we talk about the cookie-less world, and complex advertisement networks in particular SSP and DSP networks, and their evolution over time.. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have from us.#DSP#SSP#network#cookies#cookieless#ecommerce #online #retail#advertisement#pandamic #Covid#Amazon#Wayfair#Overstock#Etsy#DoorDash#Google

Glad to announce that this Sun Sep 25, 11AM ET, we, Prof. Aravind Srinivasan of UMD University who is also an Amazon Scholar. He is an elected Fellow of six professional societies: ACM, IEEE, AMS, AAAS, EATCS, and SIAM and recipient of prestigious awards such as Dijkstra Prize. He is a Distinguished University Professor at UMD and a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Madras. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Algorithms for 6 years (see his LinkedIn page at https://www.linkedin.com/in/aravind-srinivasan-8a572811/ for more details). Prof. Aravind Srinivasan and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMDs plan to have a YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Live events on Instagram @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook @Mohammad Hajiaghayi of life, research on Randomized Algorithms and Techniques, their use in Industry such as Amazon AWS, being Editor-in-Chief of a major journal, administrative work, Ph.D. Advising, Major Open Problems in the field. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have.#computerscience #CS #SocialNetworks #DiseaseNetworks #Randomization #correlation #EditorinChief #PhDAdvising #Amazon #AWS #Belllabs #Dijkstra #mahsa_amini

This Mon Sep 19, 11AM ET, we, Nishan Subedi, (see his LinkedIn at https://lnkd.in/gm9fuBAf) and Dr. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of Overstock and UMD plan to have the monthly (on third Mon of each month) YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Lives on Instagram at @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook Mohammad Hajiaghayi regarding ``Potentials of E-commerce for Retails''. In this fourth installment of Monetization Monthly, we talk about use of cookie's for advertisement, the cookie-less world, and complex advertisement networks. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have from us.#cookies #cookieless #ecommerce #online #retail#advertisement#pandamic #Covid#Amazon#Wayfair#Overstock#Etsy#DoorDash#Google

Glad to announce that this Sun Sep 4, 11AM ET, we, Prof. Noga Alon of Princeton University with over 600 papers, recipient of prestigious awards such as ACM Paris Kanellakis Award (2019), Dijkstra Prize (2016), Gödel Prize (2005), Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences (2022) (see his wiki page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NogaAlon for more details) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD plan to have a YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Live events on Instagram @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook @Mohammad Hajiaghayi of life, research, open problems on Combinatorics and Computation: how algorithms in particular streaming or distributed meets math concepts such as algebraic geometry, topology, and model theory, among other topics. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have.#ComputerScience #Combinatorics #CS #Streaming #Distributed #AlgebraicGeometry #Topology #PhDAdvising #Princeton #Microsoft #Godel #Kanellakis #Dijkstra #Shaw #OpenProblems

Please find the timeline for conversation below. Glad to announce that this Sun Aug 28, 11AM ET, we, Prof. Lenore Blum of Carnegie Mellon University, an AAAS Fellow, Noether Lecturer, Presidential PAESMIEM awardee, just to name some (see her wiki page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenore_Blum for more info) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD plan to have a YouTube broadcast @hajiaghayi, and simultaneous broadcasts on Instagram @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook @Mohammad Hajiaghayi. We talk about life esp. regarding Blum family consisting Prof. Manuel, Lenore, and Avrim Blum (one of the most famous computer science families in the world), early history and bias against women in mathematics and computer science (e.g., Princeton University did not admit any women for Ph.D. in math until 1968), early research of crypto and pseudorandomness, intersection of Turing work and Newton work, and Consciousness and Computing, among other topics. Please join us on our simultaneous broadcasts at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook. #Blum #BlumFamily#TuringAward#Women#Mathematics#Computing#Crypto#Pseudorandomness#Turing#Newton#Consciousness#Computing#MIT#CMU#princetonuniversity Timeline for the conversation0 Introduction4:00 NYC: Early days7:23 Venezuela: year “sabbatical” from school; meet Manuel; love math; become an American30:44 Carnegie Tech: Architecture; Alan Perlis40:35 Cambridge: Marriage, Simmons, MIT, Avrim54:15 More MIT: math grad school1:17:33 1968: End of Era; Year of Revolution1:19 Berkeley1:21:52 Accidental Activist: “Back to the Future” ( https://bit.ly/2mTMKzW ) (orig.1970's, edited 2016)1:30:30 Back to Research: pseudo randomness; complexity and real computation; condition #1:47:29 Back to CMU: Women@SCS; ALADDIN, Project Olympus1:58:05 Some discussion2:10:21 Conscious Turing Machine ( https://bit.ly/38zAhf6; https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.13704.pdf)

This Mon Aug 15, 11AM ET, we, Nishan Subedi, (see his linkedin at https://lnkd.in/gm9fuBAf) and Dr. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of Overstock and UMD plan to have the monthly (on third Mon of each month) YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Lives on Instagram at @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook Mohammad Hajiaghayi regarding ``Potentials of E-commerce for Retails''.Our guest is Elton Shehdula.In this third installment of Monetization Monthly, wetalk about how #retailers should position themselves for #web3, #crypto and #metaverse future.Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have from us.Some useful links that we discussed in the live:Understanding Ethereum PoS: https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-ethereum/Pwc Decentraland: https://businesschief.com/technology-and-ai/pwc-jp-morgan-samsung-buying-land-in-the-metaverseSocial Graph: https://blog.ceramic.network/building-the-social-graph-infrastructure-for-web3-0/Gucci Virtual Store in metaverse: https://vault.gucci.com/en-US/story/metaverseNike and RTFKT: https://www.voguebusiness.com/technology/nike-and-rtfkt-take-on-digital-fashion-with-first-cryptokick-sneaker#web3 #crypto #metaverse #ecommerce #online #retail#advertisement#pandamic#cookieless #Covid#Amazon#Wayfair#Overstock#Etsy#Google

Glad to announce that this Sun Aug 7, 11AM ET, we, Prof. Peter Shor of MIT, recipient of prestigious Nevanlinna prize (Fields Medal of TCS), MacArthur Fellowship, Godel, Dirac Medal and Silver Medal in International Math Olympiad (IMO) (see his wiki page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shor) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD plan to have a YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Live events on Instagram at @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook Mohammad Hajiaghayi of life, research on Quantum Algorithms and Computation, Shor's Pioneering Quantum Algorithm for Factorization, Quantum Supremacy, Future of Quantum, among other topics. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have.#QuantumComputation#ShorAlgorithm#Factorization#QuantumSupremacy#QuantumFuture#PhDAdvising#MIT#ATT#BellLabs#Nevanlinna#Godel#MacArthur#IMO#MathOlympiad

Glad to announce that this Sun Jul 31, 11AM ET, we, Prof. Madhu Sudan of Harvard and previously of MIT (also previously a scientist at IBM and Microsoft), recipient of prestigious Nevanlinna prize (Fields Medal of TCS), the Infosys Prize in Mathematics and the Hamming Medal (see his wiki page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhu_Sudan and his homepage at https://madhu.seas.harvard.edu/ for other awards and info) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD plan to have a YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Live events on Instagram at @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook Mohammad Hajiaghayi of life, research on Communication, Coding Theory, Hardness of Approximation Algorithms, Randomness, and Property Testing among other topics (in a simple language). Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have from him.#CommunicationComplexity#Coding#Hardness#ApproximationAlgorithms#Randomness#PropertyTesting#PhDAdvising#Harvard#MIT#Berkeley#IITD#Nevanlinna#Godel

This Mon July 18, 11AM ET, we, Nishan Subedi, VP at Overstock (see his wiki at https://lnkd.in/gm9fuBAf) and Dr. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of Overstock and UMD plan to have the monthly (on third Mon of each month) YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Lives on Instagram at @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook Mohammad Hajiaghayi regarding ``Potentials of E-commerce for Retails''. In this second installment of Monetization Monthly, we expect to learn following major topics around pandemic:How has pandemic affected online retail?Learning from the pandemic and how can online retails and marketplaces best position themselves.In addition, we will also touch upon topics around personalization including:What does it look like in cookie-less world?How can companies leverage first party data?Deep dive on personalized on-site advertisement.Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have from us.#ecommerce #online #retail#advertisement#pandamic#cookieless #Covid#Amazon#Wayfair#Overstock#Etsy#Google#Overstock

This Sun Jul 10, 11AM ET, I, Dr. Mohammad Hajiaghayi, plan to have a YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Live events on Instagram at @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook Mohammad Hajiaghayi ON RECENT MOVES IN STOCK MARKET, reasons, possible future moves, comparison with Dot-com bubble in 2000, tech stocks vs. others, US debt, and many more, given my research on economics, game theory, and auctions, a few years of day trading, and programs and the website that I created for short-term stock predictions, namely, Predictaa.com. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have.#stockmarket#RecentMoves#crash#analysis#BearMarket#DotcomBubble#Predictaa.com

Glad to announce that this Sun Jul 3, 11AM ET, we, Prof. David Karger of MIT (see his wiki page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Karger and his homepage at https://people.csail.mit.edu/karger/) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD plan to have a YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Live events on Instagram at @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook Mohammad Hajiaghayi of life, research on randomized algorithms, fundamental network problems, human computer interaction (HCI), Networking, Akamai, lots of startup ideas on summarization, crucial problems of social networks such as harassment and biased ideas, Late Rajeev Motwani and Daniel Lewin, startup experience, etc. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have from him.#RandomizedAlgorithms#Networking#HCI#Akamai#RajeevMotwani#DanielLewin#SocialNetworks#Anti-Harrasment#AntiBiased#MIT#Stanford

This Mon June 20, 11AM ET, we, Nishan Subedi, VP at Overstock (see his wiki at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishan-su...) and Dr. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of Overstock and UMD plan to have a YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Lives on Instagram at @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook Mohammad Hajiaghayi regarding ``Potentials of E-commerce for Retails''. We talk about our experiences and wisdom at Etsy, Wayfair, Amazon, Google, and Overstock on how marketplaces and online retailers can tap into their customer data to grow their revenue. More specifically we talk about:a) Current trends in the e-commerce landscape and preparations post-Covid, b) Areas of e-commerce to focus on for monetization, c) How to leverage technology platforms for your needs? d) How do you set up your e-commerce company for monetization experiments?Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have from us.#ecommerce #online #retail #Covid#Amazon#Wayfair#Overstock#Etsy#Google#OverstockSHOW LESS

Had North America ICPC programming contest on last Mon, this Sun June 5, 3PM ET, we, Prof. Bill Poucher of Baylor University who is an ACM Fellow (see his LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/billpoucher/) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD plan to have a YouTube Live @hajiaghayi, and simultaneously Lives on Instagram at @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook Mohammad Hajiaghayi regarding ``Past, Current and Future of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) as well as Prof. Poucher's personal life''. Prof. Poucher is probably the most influential person of our times in training the best and brightest young programmers in the world, as he has been for more than 35 years the Executive Director of the ICPC (formerly ACM ICPC) which operates autonomous regional contests covering six continents culminating in a global World Finals every year. For example in 2018 alone, ICPC participation included 52,709 students from 3,233 universities in 110 countries. Please join us on our simultaneous Lives at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook and ask questions you may have from him.#ICPC#ProgrammingContest#education#CS #ACM

This is a video from a Live on Sun May 22, 11AM ET (7:30PM Tehran Times), we, Prof. Ebad Mahmoodian of Sharif University (see his wiki at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebadollah_S._Mahmoodian and his homepage at http://sina.sharif.edu/~emahmood/ ) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD. The Live was in PERSIAN and it was simultaneously an Instagram Live at @mhajiaghayi and YouTube Live @hajiaghayi regarding Education Memories and Experiences in Computer Science and Mathematics (خاطرات و تجربیات آموزشی در ریاضی‌ و علوم کامپیوتر). Prof. Mahmoodian is 2010 Iran's eternal figure and Distinguished Professor of National Elites Foundation in 2011. He has been the president of Iranian Mathematical Society and also received Iranian Mathematical Society, Prize for "Best administrative activities for mathematics", 2018. He has also been among initial organizers of both Informatics Olympiad and Math Olympiad in Iran. He graduated 10 Ph.D. students as well as numerous B.Sc and M.Sc students. Last but not least, he has been the first research advisor of Prof. Maryam Mirzakhani, the only woman ever to win a Fields Medal, and she published her first publication with Dr. Mahmoodian. We talk about a lot Prof. Mirzakhani and the foundation named after her.#Sharif #education #computerscience #CS # Math #k12 #olympiad #FieldsMedal #Mirzakhani #Foundation #research #excercise

Sun May 8, 11AM ET, we, Prof. Ghodsi of Sharif University (see https://lnkd.in/euqJTS7q and his homepage at http://sharif.ir/~ghodsi/ ) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD had a YouTube Live at @mhajiaghayi (in Persian) regarding Education Memories and Experiences in Computer Science. Prof. Ghodsi is one of the founders of Computer Science in Sharif University who also helped initiate the Informatics Olympiad as well as the ACM ICPC programming contest in Iran more than 20 years ago . He is founder of FarsiTex, an open source software, and also published 6 textbooks in Computer Science. He graduated 14 Ph.D. students as well as numerous B.Sc and M.Sc students.#Sharif #education #computerscience #CS #k12 #olympiad #ACM #ICPC #Farsitex #hope

This is an Instagram Live on Sat March 12, 2022 1:30pm EDT (in English) of Professor Mohammad Hajiaghayi with Professor Ming Lin of UMD. We talk about life, US vs Taiwan education, pros and cons of being department chair, hiring process, robotics, Virtual Reality, Virtual Try-On, startup, autonomous driving, and many more. Join future lives if you can at @mhajiaghayi and subscribe at YouTube channel @hajiaghayi.#robotics#autonomousdriving#VirtualReality#VirtualTryOn#startup#Taiwanv.s.US#cs#departmentchair#instagramBio of Prof. Ming C. Lin: She received her B.S., M.S., Ph.D. in EECS from University of California, Berkeley. She is a Distinguished University Professor, Barry Mersky and Capital One Endowed Professor, and former Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science at University of Maryland at College Park, as well as John & Louise Parker Distinguished Professor Emerita at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also an Amazon Scholar. She has received several honors and awards, including NSF Young Faculty Career Award, UNC Hettleman Award for Scholarly Achievements, Beverly W. Long Distinguished Term Professor, IEEE VGTC VR Technical Achievement Award, Washington Academy of Sciences Distinguished Career Award and several best paper awards. She is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, Eurographics, and SIGGRAPH Academy. She is an elected Fellow by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

SECOND LIVE: Sun April 17, 11AM ET, we, Dr Yahya Tabesh (see https://lnkd.in/d4quAFmE and his short bio below) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD had an Instagram Live at @mhajiaghayi (in Persian) regarding Education memories and experiences in math & computer science in Sharif University and Stanford University(خاطرات و تجربیات آموزشی در ریاضی‌ و علوم کامپیوتر), especially Dr Tabesh's book "Silicon Valley'' in Persian (download the .pdf file FOR FREE at https://drive.google.com/file/d/13FrGQeYOar5nqzTN-t8OduA-AvIzrj0n/view), his startup LetsMod focusing on math and cs education to k12, startup cultures, Dr. Tabesh's wishes, Fields medal and Iranian Fields medalists Profs. Mirzakhani and Birkar, and much more#SiloconValley#Book#LetsMod#startup#culture#education#math#computerscience#k12#olympiad#SharifUniversity#Iran#Wish#FieldsMedal#Mirzakhani#BirkarBio: Dr. Yahya Tabesh is co-founder of LetsMod. He served as a Distinguished Faculty at the Sharif University of Technology, where he also served as the Chairman of the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Computing Center.He used to be a member of the high council in informatics and the high council of education for many years. Dr. Tabesh used to be director of math and computer Olympiads in Iran for 12 years. Dr. Tabesh was in charge of the curriculum development of the 12th grade also he was the co-founder of the Isfahan Math House and Schoolnet, a portal for K12 students and teachers. Dr. Tabesh joined Stanford University as a visiting professor in 2012 where he stayed till 2016. At Stanford, Dr. Tabesh worked on a cognitive learning system that ended with an interactive problem-solving platform. He co-founded the Let's Mod startup company in Silicon Valley to develop the platform to decentralize creativity. He won the Erdős international award in 2010 for his sustained and distinguished contribution to the enrichment of math and computer education.

Are you an entrepreneur and founding a startup? Do you want to know answers to why startups fail, issues related to hiring, valuation, funding, NSF funding through SBIR, nation ICorps, slide deck, business plan, competition, and many more startup questions from a professional startup coach? You can hear all answers on this video (recorded on Sun March 27, 10:30AM ET) as we, David Powell of DLPIBC, LLC Consulting Firm (see his linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-powell-8a0a751/ and his short bio below) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD had an Instagram Live at @mhajiaghayi (in English). David Powell has been a professional startup coach at several universities in the past 8 years and run different businesses in the past 44 years. Please join if you can (and ask questions).#Startup#Entrepreneur#StartupCoach#StartupFunding#StartupFailures#NSF#ICorps#SBIR#Hiring#CustomerTraction#SlideDeck#Competition# InstagramBIO: David Powell is Principal of DLPIBC, LLC, an internationalconsulting firm, helping companies to promote their products and services in new markets and to increase revenue share in existing markets. David Powell Various Adjunct/Mentor Activities: -* Entrepreneur in Residence, University of Maryland 2022* GWU/KIC Start Lean Innovation, 2016 – present – Lead Mentor* Co-Program Director & Lead Mentor GWU/Korea Start Lean Innovation 2019* Virginia Innovation Commercialization Assistance Program (ICAP), George Mason SBDC* National Science Foundation I-Corp Program, GMU, GWU, UMD* Korean Innovation Center, Jump Accelerator* George Mason University Summer Entrepreneurship Accelerator* AccelerateDC Mentor Program – Washington DC* Advisory board member − George Washington University, Virginia Campus (1996 to 2006)* Advisory board member − Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute (1998 to 2002)

This is the video of the live Instagram between Professor Mohammad Hajiaghayi and Kooshiar Azimian broadcasted on Feb 6, 2022, 1:3pm EDT. Kooshiar asks Professor Hajiaghayi several questions regarding his's life, research, way of thinking, experience with different companies and Professor Hajiaghayi answers them.

Sun April 10, 11AM ET, we, Dr Yahya Tabesh (see https://lnkd.in/d4quAFmE and his short bio below) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD had an Instagram Live at @mhajiaghayi (in Persian) regarding Education memories and experiences in math & computer science in Sharif University (Iran)(خاطرات و تجربیات آموزشی در ریاضی‌ و علوم کامپیوتر), including starting Olympiads, doctoral programs in math, house of mathematics, study abroad, remembering Prof. Mirzakhani, and much more#education #math #computerscience #k12 #olympiad#SharifUniversity#Iran#StudyAbroad#MirzakhaniBio: Dr. Yahya Tabesh is co-founder of LetsMod. He served as a Distinguished Faculty at the Sharif University of Technology, where he also served as the Chairman of the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Computing Center.He used to be a member of the high council in informatics and the high council of education for many years. Dr. Tabesh used to be director of math and computer Olympiads in Iran for 12 years. Dr. Tabesh was in charge of the curriculum development of the 12th grade also he was the co-founder of the Isfahan Math House and Schoolnet, a portal for K12 students and teachers. Dr. Tabesh joined Stanford University as a visiting professor in 2012 where he stayed till 2016. At Stanford, Dr. Tabesh worked on a cognitive learning system that ended with an interactive problem-solving platform. He co-founded the Let's Mod startup company in Silicon Valley to develop the platform to decentralize creativity. He won the Erdős international award in 2010 for his sustained and distinguished contribution to the enrichment of math and computer education.

Sat March 19, 1:30PM ET, we, Prof. Dinesh Manocha of UMD (see his page at https://www.cs.umd.edu/people/dmanocha and his short bio below) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD had an Instagram Live at @mhajiaghayi (in English).We talk about life and hot-topics in Metaverse, Virtual and Augmented Reality and 3D Computer Graphics, Robotics, Amazon, Self-Driving Cars, which are Prof. Manocha's expertise. BIO: Dinesh Manocha is the Paul Chrisman Iribe Chair in Computer Science & Electrical and Computer Engineering and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland College Park. He is also the Phi Delta Theta/Matthew Mason Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. He has won many awards, including Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, the NSF Career Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, Google Faculty Awards, Facebook Faculty Awards, Alibaba Innovation Awards, and the Hettleman Prize for scholarly achievement. His research interests include multi-agent simulation, virtual environments, artificial intelligence, and robotics. His group has developed a number of packages for multi-agent simulation, GPU computing, and physics-based simulation that have been used by hundreds of thousands of users and licensed to more than 60 commercial vendors. He has published more than 640 papers and supervised more than 40 PhD dissertations. He is an inventor of 14 patents, several of which have been licensed to industry. His work has been covered by the New York Times, NPR, Boston Globe, Washington Post, ZDNet, as well as DARPA Legacy Press Release. He is a Fellow of AAAI, AAAS, ACM, and IEEE, member of ACM SIGGRAPH Academy, and received Bézier Award from Solid Modeling Association. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Delhi and the Distinguished Career in Computer Science Award from Washington Academy of Sciences. He was a co-founder of Impulsonic, a developer of physics-based audio simulation technologies, which was acquired by Valve Inc in November 2016. See http://www.cs.umd.edu/~dm#Metaverse#VirtualReality#Robotics#Amazon#SelfDrivingCars#Startup#AugmentedReality#3DGraphics#Instagram

Tue, April 5, 5:00PM ET, we, Prof. Aleksander Madry of MIT (see his MIT page at https://people.csail.mit.edu/madry/ and his short bio below) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD had an Instagram Live at @mhajiaghayi (in English). We talked about life, MIT admission, citation counts, parenting, Industry vs Academia, advise for high-school students, and hot-topics in DEEP-LEARNING such as adversarial attacks, robust systems, ML Features, Network Flow as well as the intersection of ML and theoretical CS which are Prof. Madry's expertise.BIO: Aleksander Madry is the Cadence Design Systems Professor of Computing at MIT, leads the MIT Center for Deployable Machine Learning as well as is a faculty co-lead for the MIT AI Policy Forum. His research interests span algorithms, continuous optimization, and understanding machine learning from robustness and deployability perspectives.Professor Madry's work has been recognized with a number of awards, including an NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, an ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, and Presburger Award. He received his PhD from MIT in 2011 and, prior to joining the MIT faculty, he spent time at Microsoft Research New England and on the faculty of EPFL.#MIT#Admission#Citation#Deep#ML#Attack#Robust#Features#NetworkFlow#MLvsTheory#IndustryvsAcademia#Parenting#Highschool#Instagram

On Sun MAR 6, 10:30AM EDT, we, Alireza Farhadi (IOI Silver Medalist), Peyman Jabbarzade (IOI Bronze Medalist), Saeed Seddigihin (IOI Silver Medalist) and myself, Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi (IOI Silver Medalist), talk about Olympiad, effect in life, life before, during and after Olympiad, Computer Olympiad preparation, IQvsEQ, Industry relation, and other issues related to Olympiad in an INSTAGRAM LIVE AT @mhajiaghayi (in PERSIAN).Please SUBSSCRIBE subscribe to @hajiaghayi at YouTube for this and future videos. Also JOIN future lives at Instagram @mhajiaghayi .#Olympiad #IOI#life#IQvsEQ #industy #research #instagram

This is an Instagram Live on Sat March 5, 2022 1:30pm EDT (in English) of Professor Mohammad Hajiaghayi with Professor Richard Cole of NYU. We talk about life, US vs UK higher education systems, graduate (Ph.D.) admission, as well as ,algorithmic game theory, market equilibrium, market clearance, truthful auctions, and parallel PRAM algorithms vs Spark/MapReduce algorithms. Join future lives if you can at @mhajiaghayi#gametheory#spark#admission#UKv.s.US#market#equilibrium

This is the video of the live Instagram between Professor Mohammad Hajiaghayi and Iman Khoraminezhad from "My Life Story" podcast broadcasted on April 30, 2022, 11:30pm EDT (in Persian). Iman asks Professor Hajiaghayi several questions regarding his life, research, way of thinking, miracle in life, definition of happiness, advice for youth, ultimate goals, experience with different companies and academia and Professor Hajiaghayi answers them.#life #research #thinking #miracle #happiness #advice #goals #experience #industry #academia #olympiad #Sharif #Waterloo #MIT #NODET #StudyAbroad

This is the video of the live Instagram between Professor Mohammad Hajiaghayi and Kooshiar Azimian broadcasted on Jan 23, 2022, 1:3pm EDT. Kooshiar asks Professor Hajiaghayi several questions regarding his's life, research, way of thinking, experience with different companies and Professor Hajiaghayi answers them.

We, Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi and Prof. William Gasarch of UMD (see his wiki at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gasarch or his blog http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/) had an Instagram Live @mhajiaghayi Sat FEB 26, 2022 1:30PM EDT (in English).We talked about our lives as well as blogging, research (including PvsNP, zero-knowledge, Zcash), parenting, and how to inspire young minds. Please join us at our future Instagram Lives @mhajiaghayi (and ask questions).#blogging#youngminds#research#ZeroKnowledge#Zcash#parenting#highschool#mentoring#instagram

This is an Instagram Live on Sun FEB 20, 2022 11am EDT (in English) of Professor Mohammad Hajiaghayi with Professor Elaine Shi of CMU (see her wiki). We talk about our lives as well as differential privacy, ORAM privacy, crypto, and blockchain for which she is world-famous. Join future lives if you can at @mhajiaghayi