Join us for a special CMG Be Curious Series session featuring Anoush Najarian, a dynamic leader in performance engineering and a passionate advocate for innovation in tech. In this engaging interview, Anoush will share insights from her career, discuss the evolving landscape of performance and reliability, and offer practical advice for engineers and IT professionals navigating today’s challenges.

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4USQaGKFRGu6Xj2gypd_Cw

Known for her expertise in large-scale system performance and her ability to break down complex concepts, Anoush brings a unique perspective on topics like observability, AI-driven automation, and building resilient systems. With our moderator, Rich Byrnes, this conversation will go beyond the technical, touching on leadership, career growth, and what it takes to stay ahead in an ever-changing industry.

Whether you’re an experienced professional or just starting out, this session will leave you with fresh insights and inspiration. Come curious, leave inspired.

📅 Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025
⏰ Time: 10 AM ET
📍 Location: Zoom! https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4USQaGKFRGu6Xj2gypd_Cw

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About Anoush Najarian

Anoush Najarian is a Software Engineering Manager at MathWorks where she leads a team focusing on performance engineering, and helps nurture grassroots DEI (diversity, equity inclusion) and Ethical AI efforts. Anoush’s team pioneered the AI-assisted coding work at MathWorks. Passionate about making the tech community welcoming to everyone, Anoush co-led and co-coached teams of hundreds of speakers and power TAs (teaching assistants), most of whom are women, to build highly technical (and fun!) workshops that have since been presented to thousands of participants around the world.
Anoush holds a Red Diploma from Yerevan State University in Applied Math/Computer Science. Anoush was awarded a fellowship for a non-degree graduate program in Economics by the US Department of State. Anoush holds two Master’s of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: in Math and in Computer Science.
Anoush served on the organizing committees of conferences focusing on computer science, performance engineering, and machine learning/AI research. Anoush is the Board Director and Past Chair of the Board of Directors of CMG (Computer Measurement Group) https://www.cmg.org/, a professional organization of performance engineers. Anoush has been serving on the conference committees of ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) https://icpe2025.spec.org/, reviewer for the workshop “Algorithmic Fairness through the Lens of Metrics and Evaluation” (AFME) https://www.afciworkshop.org/, and committee member for IEEE 7009.1 Standard for Safety Management of Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Systems–Interventions in the Event of Anomalous Behavior https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/7009.1/11850/ Anoush served as the AI and Data Science Co-Chair of GHC (Grace Hopper Celebration) https://ghc.anitab.org/, the inaugural Virtual Co-Chair of ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning) https://icml.cc/, and Meetup Co-Chair of NeurIPS https://neurips.cc/. Anoush is the Senior Organizer of the WiML (Women in Machine Learning) Mentorship Program https://sites.google.com/view/wimlmentorship202425/ Anoush is on the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics list; for more about Anoush’s background and involvement in Ethical AI, see: https://medium.com/women-in-ai-ethics/iamthefutureofai-anoush-najarian-49b13029dbca