As a child in Iran, Farimah Farahmandi, now Ph.D., knew she wanted a math-heavy career.
Every night, she would lie in bed and think about doing research and crunching numbers in technologically advanced countries like Japan or the United States.
But what would that look like? Engineering, sure, but what kind? At age 17, she was considering industrial engineering when her father invited her for a stroll.
“He took me to the mountain near my town for a long walk, and I had nowhere to escape,” she recalled with a smile. “He talked about how the world was changing and how computing would transform everything. He said that soon everything would rely on computers: banking systems, appliances, cars. He told me computer engineering would be at the center of that transformation.”
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