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Houston Astros Dr. Ehsan Bokhari, Senior Director of Player Evaluation on Ai in Baseball

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Houston Astros Dr. Ehsan Bokhari, Senior Director of Player Evaluation on Ai in Baseball

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Dr. Bokhari joined the Houston Astros as Director of Research and Development in November 2018. A year later, Ehsan was promoted to his current role as Senior Director, Player Evaluation.

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In his current role, Ehsan contributes to amateur, professional and international player evaluation. Ehsan previously oversaw all projects coming out of R&D, ensuring their quality and making certain that all baseball operations’ consumer needs were met. Ehsan previously spent four seasons (2015-2018) with the Los Angeles Dodgers’ R&D team as a Senior Analyst--he was one of the original members of the Dodgers’ R&D staff.

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Prior to joining the Dodgers, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois for the 2014-2015 academic year. While at the University of Illinois, Ehsan completed an MS in statistics in 2011 and received his PhD in quantitative psychology in 2014.

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Ehsan received his undergraduate degrees in psychology and mathematics at the University of Arizona, in 2009.