Prof. Vahid Nikoofard, PhD

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• Professional Experience:

  • 2025-Present: Associate Professor of Computational Physics, Rio de Janeiro State University - Resende (FAT/UERJ)

  • 2016-2025: Assistant Professor of Computational Physics, Rio de Janeiro State University - Resende (FAT/UERJ)

  • 2021-Present: Coordinator of the Laboratório Interdisciplinar Virtual de Inteligência Artificial (LIVIA) 

  • 2024-Present: Technical Management Coordinator, George Eastman Center for Development in Technological Innovation (CDIT), UERJ

  • 2022-Present: Collaborator Research Fellow, São Paulo State University - Guaratinguetá (FEG/UNESP)

  • 2016-2020: Collaborator Research Fellow, Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF)

  • 2015-2016: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF)

• Education:

  • PhD in Theoretical Physics, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil, 2015.

  • MSc in Financial Engineering, WorldQuant University, USA, 2025

  • MSc in Theoretical Physics, University of Kashan, Iran, 2009

  • BSc in Solid State Physics, Shahed University, Iran, 2005 

• Research Interests:

  • Econophysics and Financial Engineering

  • Probabilistic Machine Learning and Causal AI

  • Applications of AI in Fundamental Physics