Saed Rezayi, PhD
NLP Scientist
Saed Rezayi is a natural language processing (NLP) scientist in the Office of Research Strategy at NBME. He is interested in the intersection of education, linguistics, and NLP. At NBME, Saed is contributing to research on automated scoring, aiming to bring more efficiency to standardized testing methods. He also explores how NLP can be applied to improve patient-provider communication scoring.
Earning his doctorate in computer science from the University of Georgia, Saed specialized in NLP and knowledge graphs. His research during this time was centered around enhancing machine comprehension of data by integrating auxiliary knowledge. Prior to that, he completed his master’s in computer science from the University of Oregon.
Outside of his professional activities, Saed enjoys playing the setar and capturing moments through street photography.
