Dr. Arya Rahgozar

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Arya Rahgozar is an adjunct professor in data science at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as a scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He obtained his PhD in digital transformation and innovation from the University of Ottawa, focusing on natural language processing (NLP). His expertise includes multilingual semantic text classification, clustering, and ontology learning. He also holds a Master's degree from the University of Waterloo in management sciences, concentrating on graph process modeling and temporal event predictions. Rahgozar has over 20 years of experience in decision science analytics across industrial sectors, including banking, credit risk, marketing, and healthcare, where he has led advanced analytics teams and served as a principal data scientist. He is involved in multiple e-health projects as a co-investigator, applying NLP in healthcare contexts and is a Mitacs principal investigator for a startup focused on developing a chatbot recommender system.

Research Interests

Requirements for University of Ottawa

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
IELTS
Listening
Required:6
Reading
Required:6
Writing
Required:6.5
Speaking
Required:6
Overall
Required:6.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:20
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:22
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:86
Prerequisites
Honours BA in History or equivalent
Application Checklist
  • Official Transcripts
  • Two letters of recommendation
  • Resume
  • Statement of Interest
Specialization Notes

Department of History