Kiana Ehsani
Kiana Ehsani is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic and co-founded Vercept, a startup that was acquired. She is an expert in AI and machine learning, holding a PhD in Computer Science.
Uncommon Thinkers 2025: Solar spacecraft, sci-fi biology, destroying PFAS, beyond AI chatbots, and better social media
On this special episode of the GeekWire Podcast, recorded backstage at the GeekWire Gala at the Showbox Sodo, we sit down with five of the inventors, scientists, and entrepreneurs selected as the Seattle region's 2025 Uncommon Thinkers, in partnership with Greater Seattle Partners. Jeff Thornburg spent years building rocket engines for Elon Musk at SpaceX and Paul Allen at Stratolaunch. Now, as CEO of Portal Space Systems, he's moved past chemical rockets to revive a concept NASA studied decades ago but never pursued — a spacecraft powered by focused sunlight. He calls it a "steam engine for space." Read the…
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Education
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University of Washington Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science · 2015–2020
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University of Washington Master's degree, Computer Science · 2015–2017
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Sharif University of Technology Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering · 2011–2015
