Farshad Kheiri is the Head of AI and Data Science at Legion Technologies, an industry leader for AI-powered, machine-learning workforce management products. The company uses advanced technology to solve some of the biggest WFM business challenges while creating an employee experience that helps to attract and retain employees. What initially attracted you to computer science and engineering? I learned programming through online courses, as well as some on-campus classes. My background is in electrical engineering, but I have a minor in math, stochastic processes, and probability.

Farshad Kheir is the Head of AI and Data Science at Legion Technologies, an industry leader for AI-powered, machine-learning workforce management products. The company uses advanced technology to solve some of the biggest WFM business challenges while creating an employee experience that helps to attract and retain employees. What initially attracted you to computer science and engineering? I learned programming through online courses, as well as some on-campus classes. My background is in electrical engineering, but I have a minor in math, stochastic processes, and probability.

Legion Technologies, the pioneer in AI-powered workforce management, announced the availability of the Legion Rapid Recovery Program, a no-cost service that helps companies quickly recover from the recent UKG Private Cloud ransomware attack. This new Program allows UKG Private Cloud customers to resume the accurate capture of employee time clocks and re-start communications with their frontline employees – within 48 hours – eliminating the need for manual timekeeping processes and enabling them to ensure their frontline employees can get paid, accurately and on time. "Ransomware attacks affect more than just the organizations that are targeted. Hourly employees also suffer, as they inevitably worry about the impact an attack will have on their ability to get paid," said Michael Spataro, Chief Delivery Officer for Legion Technologies. "As Legion's mission is to turn hourly jobs into good jobs, and improve the lives of hourly employees, we wanted to help everyone impacted by the recent ransomware attack on UKG Private Cloud customers – hourly employees, their managers, and their employers. With the new Legion Rapid Recovery Program, they can resume operations within 24-48 hours."