Iranian AI pioneer Prof. Vahab Mirrokni shares his journey on INOPOD

INOPOD, the official podcast of Pardis Technology Park (PTP), presents a special series hosting the 2025 Mustafa Prize (PBUH) winners to share their scientific achievements and personal journeys.

In the first special episode, INOPOD features Professor Vahab Mirrokni, a distinguished Iranian scientist who was awarded the 2025 Mustafa Prize (PBUH) for designing a groundbreaking algorithm based on p-stable distributions and the Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) method. His innovation has significantly accelerated similarity search in big data—up to 40 times faster—while dramatically reducing computational costs.
Mirrokni’s algorithm is now used in major global projects, including data systems at Google, and has broad applications in search engines, social networks, and facial recognition technologies.
This episode offers listeners an insightful conversation about his academic journey, from studying at Sharif University and MIT to becoming a leading figure in artificial intelligence, as well as his perspectives on innovation across the Islamic world.
Watch the podcast with English subtitles [click here].