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Farnaz Ronaghi

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Co-Founder and CPTO at NovoEd
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Farnaz Ronaghi is the Co-Founder and Chief of Product and Technology at NovoEd, an AI-powered talent development platform. An engineer by training with a PhD from Stanford, she scaled NovoEd from a university research project into a company serving global enterprises by focusing on collaborative and experiential learning at scale.

Originally from Tehran, Iran, Farnaz is a self-described "culture aficionado" and "designer thinker" who enjoys solving problems at the intersection of computer science and social sciences. In a podcast, she shared that to introverts she seems like an extrovert, and to extroverts, she seems like an introvert.

Unique fact: Farnaz co-founded her company, NovoEd, based on her PhD project at Stanfords social algorithms lab, turning her academic research directly into a commercial venture.

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Experience
17 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder and CPTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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AI in Learning
As CPTO of an AI-powered learning platform, she frequently discusses how AI is transforming employee training and development, embedding learning directly into workflows.
Collaborative Learning
Her PhD research and the foundation of NovoEd are centered on enabling collaborative and peer-to-peer learning experiences at a massive scale.
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Career

Work history

12-2012
Co-Founder and CPTO
NovoEd
9-2010 - 3-2017
Ph.D. in Information Science & Technology, Dissertation: Collaborative Learning at Scale
Stanford University
6-2010 - 9-2010
Summer Intern
AOL Advertising
9-2008 - 6-2010
M.Sc. in MS&E, concentration: Information Science & Technology
Stanford University
In the press

Media appearances

Enhancing Employee Learning Through AI with Farnaz Ronaghi of NovoEd. Featured in Disruptive Innovators Podcast
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Stanford‑bred NovoEd teams with top biz schools on Web. Featured in San Jose Business Journal
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Education
2010 - 2014
PhD
Stanford University
2008 - 2010
MSc
Stanford University
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