Summary
Levon Hovhannisyan is a PhD-trained AI engineer and executive with eight years of industry experience and an Executive MBA from York University, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO of Sestive and New Nörm AI in Prague. He spent over a decade at Microsoft across roles from Technical Evangelist to Senior Partner Technology Strategist and Cloud Solution Architect, helping ISVs design scalable cloud platforms and lead digital transformation. His work bridges rigorous academic research in decision-making algorithms with product-led AI, evidenced by New Nörm’s Human Memory Database Engine that models dynamic mental-state graphs for personalized support. Comfortable switching between hands-on engineering and strategy, he builds empathic AI systems for mental well-being that prioritize longitudinal, emotionally aware interactions rather than one-off predictions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at National Polytechnic University of Armenia
Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Master degree, Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Master degree at University of York
Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at State Engineering University of Armenia