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Our Team

Team

(Executive Team)

Bijan Tadayon, Ph.D., J.D.

Bijan Tadayon, Ph.D., J.D.

Entrepreneur & AI Scientist

CEO & Co-Founder

BS, Appl. Physics, Cornell U., ranked 2nd

PhD, Electrical Eng, Cornell U.

JD, Georgetown Law  

  • Prolific innovator and entrepreneur in multiple startups, e.g., Contentguard (an encryption/DRM startup), a Xerox PARC spin-off, invested by Microsoft, Time Warner, and Thomson, with about $1B valuation at the time

  • Cofounded multi-media software game company

  • Patent expert, former USPTO Primary Patent Examiner & Patent Examiner Trainer

  • More than 90 technical journal publications and presentations and more than 100 pending or issued patents worldwide

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Saied Tadayon, Ph.D., J.D.

Entrepreneur & AI Scientist

CTO & Co-Founder

BS, Appl. Physics, Cornell U., ranked 1st

PhD, Electrical Eng, Cornell U. (at age 23)

JD, Georgetown Law

  • Prolific innovator and entrepreneur in multiple startups

  • Cofounded multi-media software game company

  • Designed & fabricated the fastest transistor in the world in its class (GaAs HBT) at Comsat Lab

  • Software/system design and development in multiple technologies (game, AI, semiconductor, electronics, VoIP) and multiple industries (telecom, government, energy)

  • Consulting IT Architect at IBM

  • Senior Software Developer at Nextone Communications

  • Senior Member of Technical Staff at Comsat Laboratories

Executive Team Members
Mahnaz Dean, PhD

Mahnaz Dean, Ph.D.

M.Eng. in Robotics Vision, Cornell U.;
Ph.D. in Public Admin., IT Admin & Mgmt, USC;
Sr. Exec. Fellow, Harvard U.;

fmr. IBM Executive

Co-Founder

Rob Sobhani, Ph.D.

Rob Sobhani, Ph.D.

Entrepreneur
Adjunct Prof., Georgetown Univ.

Marketing & Business Advisor

Major General Duane A. Jones, USAF (ret)

US Government Advisor & DoD Liaison

Marv Langston, Ph.D.

Marv Langston, Ph.D.

fmr. SVP of SAIC

first CIO of US Dept. of Navy

Business Advisor

Team Members

Academic & Scientific Advisors

Academic Team Members
Prof. Mory Gharib, Ph.D.

Fmr. Vice Provost for Research

Caltech

Prolific Entrepreneur & Inventor

Prof. Robert Buhrman, Ph.D.

Fmr. Sr. Vice Provost for Research
Cornell University

Prof. Michael Spencer, Ph.D.

Howard Univ. & Morgan State & Cornell

Fmr. Dean of Engineering, Morgan State U.; and

Fmr. Associate Dean for Research, Cornell Engineering

Prof. Mo Jamshidi, Ph.D.

Univ. of Texas, San Antonio

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Fmr. Founding Director of NASA Center for Autonomous Control Engineering; and

US Army Science Board

Prof. Ronald Yager, Ph.D.

Iona College, New York

Director of the Machine Intelligence Institute

Prof. Gholam Peyman, MD

University of Arizona

Inventor of LASIK (recognized as "Top 8 Medical Inventions (Marvels)" ; and

National Medal of Technology and Innovation (awarded by US President)

Professor Lotfi Zadeh, Ph.D.

Late Professor Lotfi Zadeh, Ph.D.

(1921-2017)

U.C. Berkeley

ZAC contributing inventor

Father of Fuzzy Logic.
Artificial Intelligence Hall of Fame.
Member of Academy of Sciences in 7 countries.
Inventor of Computation-with-Words, Soft Computing, and Z-number.
Co-inventor of Z-Transform.

More than 50 international awards, e.g.:
     - Honda Prize
     - IEEE Medal of Honor
     - ACM Award for seminal contributions to AI
     - Golden Goose Award, by AAAS & US Congress

Prof Zadeh
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