Kasra Ghaharian, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Biography
Dr. Kasra Ghaharian is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the 51吃瓜网万能科大, International Gaming Institute. Dr. Ghaharian鈥檚 research interests include machine learning, consumer protection, and payments modernization in the gambling field.
Dr. Ghaharian completed his Ph.D. and M.S. at the 51吃瓜网万能科大, William F. Harrah College of Hospitality. His Ph.D. research explored the implications of payment modernization for the gambling industry specifically, for his dissertation he applied machine learning to payments transaction data to characterize gamblers and identify payment-related behavioral risk indicators. During his Master鈥檚 Dr. Ghaharian published 鈥淎 Mathematical Approach for Optimizing the Casino Slot Floor: A Linear Programming Application,鈥 the first study to apply mathematical methods to the age-old task of optimizing the casino floor. Prior to beginning his Ph.D, Dr. Ghaharian worked in industry for several years at two of the largest casino-hotel companies in the world.