Parham Aarabi
Founder and CEO, ModiFace
Parham Aarabi is the Founder and CEO of ModiFace, the world’s leading beauty-focused augmented reality company which was acquired by L’Oréal in 2018. He is also a Professor at the University of Toronto focused on applied AI. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in Electrical Engineering at the age of 24, subsequently becoming one of the youngest professors in University of Toronto’s history. He is the recipient of numerous awards including MIT’s TR35 “world’s Top Young Innovator” award, the Premier’s Catalyst Award for Innovation, the IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Award, the Canada Research Chair, and University of Toronto’s Inventor of the Year award. Parham has authored over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 30 patents, and two books, mostly focused on Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence.
