Behzad Samadi
Vice President Of Engineering at KavAI
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolBehzad Samadi is a Vice President of Engineering and founder with 14 years of experience building autonomy, robotics, and cloud-native systems from research prototypes to production. He leads development of PanOptOS at KavAI, specializing in multi-agent autonomy, sensor fusion, SLAM, and AI-driven perception while deploying scalable edge-cloud stacks using Docker, Kubernetes and Azure. His background spans model-based algorithm design—MPC, estimation, and fault detection—embedded and automotive control, and large-scale fleet and IoT management, reflecting deep cross-domain systems expertise. Behzad has a strong academic foundation (PhD) and a history of turning theoretical control methods into real products, having led teams of 30 to deliver autonomous robots and vehicles. He combines hands-on competencies in ROS, PX4, PyTorch and simulation tools (Unreal/ AirSim) with cost-conscious cloud engineering (40% cloud savings at SceneBox). Known for bridging research and commercialization, he often architects model-based development workflows that accelerate ML and control systems to market.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Amirkabir University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering at Concordia UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc) Electrical Engineering - Control Systems, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Electrical Engineering - Control Systems at Sharif University of Technology
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
wikihub/wiki-garden
May 2022 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 176 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 5 months
eLearningHub/presentation-reveal-pandoc
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:81 commits, 53 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
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