Contact:
rrazavi@kent.edu
330-672-1155
About:
Dr. Razavi has received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Essex, UK. He is currently a faculty member involved in the Master in Business Analytics (MSBA) program at Kent State University. Prior to joining Kent State University, he was the Director of Group Decision Sciences at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in New York where he was leading a team of data scientists and quantitative modelers to improve various risk models across the bank. Before that, he was a Senior Scientist in the Advanced Analytics Department at SAP, where he was leading a team of software developers and involved in designing SAP Predictive Analytics software suite. Before joining SAP, Dr. Razavi served as a Research Scientist at Bell Labs for several years where he received the Bell Labs’ Golden Pen Award in 2012. He has published more than 70 papers in scholarly journals and conferences and was the recipient of two best paper awards. Dr. Razavi is also an inventor/ co-inventor of 30 patent applications in the US, Europe, and Asia.