“Ilham Tabasi” was included in the list of 100 influential people in the field of artificial intelligence in 2023 by Time magazine.

Time magazine has announced the list of 100 influential people in the field of artificial intelligence, in which the names of people including “Sam Altman”, the CEO of OpenAI, “Demis Hasabis”, the CEO of DeepMind and Elon Musk appear. Another noteworthy point of this attendance listElham Tabasi» He is a senior Iranian researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and deputy of the emerging technologies department of the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL).

In its list, Time has named the world’s 100 most influential people in the field of artificial intelligence in categories including leaders, investors, shapers and researchers. This list includes the names of various people, including 18-year-old Senha Ravanur, who in 2020 founded the world’s first and largest active group of young people in artificial intelligence called Encode Justice, to 76-year-old Jeffrey Hinton.

The presence of an Iranian in Time’s list of 100 influential people of artificial intelligence

As we said, one of the notable names mentioned in the category of artificial intelligence shapers is “Ilam Tabasi”. Time writes about this Iranian researcher:

“Nearly five years ago, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) began building a program to advance the development of reliable and accountable artificial intelligence systems. It was Elham Tabasi, electrical engineer and chief of staff of the institute’s information technology laboratory, who moved the conversation about the impact of artificial intelligence from principles to practical policy implementation.

Tabasi, who was born and raised in Iran, has always dreamed of becoming a scientist. He immigrated to the United States in 1994 for his graduate studies, and five years later began working at NIST on various machine learning and computer vision projects. Earlier in his career, he was the principal architect of Fingerprint Image Quality (NFIQ) at NIST, which is now an international standard for measuring fingerprint image quality and is used by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.