Farshad is a mathematical modeler, physicist, electronics engineer, systems engineer, policy analyst and R developer. He follows the star-crossed ancient passion of "knowing it all", in this lifetime by striving to capture educated observations in the flask of quantitative models and computer simulations. For a generalist like him, anything with a measurable input and a measurable output is a system, either an electronic circuit (a hard system of free electrons and physical limitations) or a society (a soft system of minds, desires and regulations). He is fascinated by Feynman's quantum electrodynamics (QED), mind and consciousness philosophy, deep space and gravitational waves, Bayesian graphical models and Italian renaissance art. When not working, he’s busy cooking Persian and Italian dishes, painting portraits, playing unpopular video games or looking at his favorite set of astrological charts.