Mahsa Mohaghegh (McCauley) is an Iranian-born New Zealand computer engineer specialising in artificial intelligence and natural language processing. She is a professor of information technology and software engineering at

Auckland University of Technology Auckland University of Technology (AUT) ( mi, Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau) is a university in New Zealand, formed on 1 January 2000 when a former technical college (originally established in 1895) was granted university status. AUT ...

Biography

Mohaghegh grew up in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. She completed a bachelor of computer engineering, and a masters in computer architecture, and in 2013 she completed a doctorate in computer engineering at

Massey University Massey University ( mi, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa) is a university based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, with significant campuses in Albany and Wellington. Massey University has approximately 30,883 students, 13,796 of whom are extramural or ...

. In February 2017 she was appointed a lecturer at Auckland University of Technology. Since 2013 she has been involved wit
Google’s Computer Science for High Schools programme
and runs workshops in Auckland. Mohaghegh founded a women's networking group called She#
She Sharp
to encourage girls and young women to engage with digital industries.

Awards

In 2013 Mohaghegh won the Emerging Leader category at the

New Zealand Women of Influence Award The New Zealand Women of Influence Awards are an annual set of awards which recognise women who make a difference to everyday New Zealanders' lives. The Awards were first made in 2013 and were initially sponsored by Westpac Bank. In 2016, Stuff N ...

s. In 2018 she was one of ten finalists for the New Zealander of the Year Award and also won the Auckland University Of Technology Vice-Chancellor Diversity Award for the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies.

References

External links

* * * * https://academics.aut.ac.nz/mahsa.mohaghegh/about * https://shesharp.org.nz/about-us/meet-our-team/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Mohaghegh, Mahsa Living people Year of birth missing (living people) New Zealand Women of Influence Award recipients Massey University alumni Iranian emigrants to New Zealand