Elham Avard is a Work Study Student with the Cinema Iranica project. Elham is currently a PhD student in the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto. Her academic focus examines the use of artificial intelligence for medical image analysis. She received her BA in Physics and MSc in Medical Physics from Shahid Beheshti University, in Tehran, Iran. In her free time, Elham is interested in Iranian cinema and poetry, which encouraged her to collaborate with the Cinema Iranica project as a work-study student.