Present — s a h a r

A woman with curly dark hair, slightly graying at the temples, smiles gently at the camera. She wears a gray hoodie and a lanyard with a badge. The background is dark, with some visible pipes or metal fixtures.

I’m utterly pleased, and surprised, to see my PhD work on eXtended Cognition morphs so seamlessly into my dream field of research: theoretical AI.

What connects them is the brain–body–environment loop and situated AI.

Love:

entropy, economics, complexity, stock markets

Hate:

feeling people’s pain

Confusion:

mediocrity

S a h a r N i k n a m

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t w i t t e r

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m e d i u m

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l i n k e d i n

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o r c i d