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The University at Albany’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is proud to celebrate Dr. Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi and Dr. Amirreza Masoumzadeh, 2021 recipients of the highly competitive Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award in support of early career-development activities of teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education in their work. 

TIME-AWARE MULTI-OBJECTIVE RECOMMENDATION IN ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
Sahebi’s project, CAREER: Time-Aware Multi-Objective Recommendation in Online Learning Environments, is designed to advance learning in online educational systems by assisting students in achieving personalized, efficient, and continuous learning. Sahebi’s research team will investigate a new generation of educational recommendation and personalization systems that are capable of suggesting learning materials of heterogeneous types to students, according to multiple learning and behavioral goals, in continuous time. She has been awarded $547,705 from NSF for the 5-year grant.
BLACK-BOX LEARNING OF WEB APPLICATION AUTHORIZATION POLICIES
Masoumzadeh’s project, CAREER: Black-Box Learning of Web Application Authorization Policies, devises a novel framework for understanding the authorization behavior of web applications. It will enable automated learning of fine-grained authorization policies from web applications without relying on access to their source codes or understanding other internal complexities. He was awarded $574,719 from NSF for the 5-year project.
“With five new CAREER Awards in just the past four years, and with three of those going to women, the College is setting a remarkable pace in the growth of its research portfolio and national recognition while still in its early days. We are all enormously proud of the exceptional work Amir and Sherry are doing as they advance the CEAS mission of ‘Science in Service to Society.’”
Kim Boyer, Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

FUN FACT: While these 2021 recipients earned their respective awards for two separate projects, Sahebi and Masoumzadeh are a married couple. Read more here.