MOTION METRICS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Professor at the University of Toronto
- Senior Advisor on Business Strategy and Artificial Intelligence
Ajay Agrawal is a professor at the University of Toronto, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA, Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and Advisory Board Member for Carnegie Mellon University's Block Center for Technology and Society. He conducts research on the economics of science and innovation and co-authored the best-selling book "Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence" (Harvard Business School Press, 2018) and co-edited "The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda" (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Professor Agrawal is founder of the Creative Destruction Lab and cofounder of NEXT Canada. The Globe and Mail listed Professor Agrawal as one of the 50 Most Powerful People in Canadian Business.
Vision
To inspire a new generation of safe, sustainable, and smart mining
Shahram founded Motion Metrics after completing his PhD thesis in Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He received his bachelor and master's degrees (with honors) from Sharif University of Technology. He is an avid inventor holding numerous patents, an adjunct professor with the UBC Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), an angel investor in many promising Canadian and international technology start-ups, and an associate member of the Creative Destruction Lab. Shahram chairs several boards of the directors and sits on advisory board of several technology companies. Shahram believes in lifelong learning.