TEHRAN – Azadeh Keivani has won the American Physics Society’s (APS) award for the development and application of artificial intelligence techniques to problems ranging from education to clinical studies in cancer and heart disease.

She has also earned the award for enthusiasm in the translation of esoteric academic research training into solutions for pressing real-world problems, according to the APS website.

Each year, APS recognizes outstanding achievements in research, education, and public service.

This year’s spring award recipients were selected from hundreds of nominees from across the physics community.

Keivani has received the FIAP Career Lectureship Award which recognizes physicists in industrial and other non-academic careers for their significant contributions to the advancement of physics of a technical, industrial, or entrepreneurial nature and for their demonstrated ability to give interesting and engaging lectures to both experts and non-experts.

She won the FIAP Career Lectureship Award in 2023, as well.

Establishing and managing an educational institution that aims to empower deprived students with digital and entrepreneurial skills is part of her non-academic career, Mehr news agency reported.

By developing statistical and machine learning models, she tries to detect and predict cardiac diseases and cancer.

Keivani holds a B. Sc. in physics from Sharif University of Technology. She is now a senior data scientist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

She co-founded Staryab, the first Farsi-language professional astrophysical literature website, winning the 2018 Cheragh prize for scientific outreach to Farsi speakers, the website added.

Women among top 1% most-cited researchers

Some 135 out of 938 Iranian researchers who have been recognized among the world's top one percent most-cited researchers in 2023 were female scholars.

In 2023, 938 top researchers affiliated with Iranian organizations have been identified, which shows a 12 percent increase compared to the previous year. Over the past decade, the number of highly-cited researchers in the country has been growing.

Women are an important part of society, playing an important role in the development of human societies, IRNA quoted Ahmad Fazelzadeh, the head of the Islamic World Science and Technology Monitoring and Citation (ISC) Institute, as saying.

One of the indicators of scientific authority is the number of highly cited scientists in each country, and Iranian women researchers have a special place in the field of scientific authority at the national and international level, Fazelzadeh added.

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