Dr. Banafsheh Rekabdar is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab. Her research develops robust machine learning methods for real-world decision-making, with an emphasis on reinforcement learning, applied machine learning, and generative AI (including VAEs, diffusion models, and LLMs), particularly for multimodal settings. Dr. Rekabdar is an IEEE member and collaborates across academia and industry on practical AI systems and evaluation. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nevada, Reno.
Research Interests and Expertise
- Artificial Intelligence
- Generative AI
- Machine Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
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