Mehrzad Sajjadi
Product Strategy
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMehrzad Sajjadi is a product and technology leader who blends an engineer’s rigor with an entrepreneur’s instinct, bringing 11+ years of experience building AI, robotics, and aerospace systems at companies from NASA JPL to his own startup. He founded and scaled nFlux AI from a JPL project into a venture-backed company serving NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and global manufacturers, leading a 70+ cross-functional team and deploying solutions across eight countries. His portfolio spans deep-space robotics, industrial computer vision, and biosensing translation, with multi-million government contracts, eight-figure VC raises, and recognition like Forbes 30 Under 30 and a Presidential Khwarizmi robotics prize. Academically grounded with advanced degrees and research stints at Stanford, Caltech, Harvard, and Georgia Tech, he has 10+ peer-reviewed publications and a track record of turning research into mission-critical products. Currently focused on scientific superintelligence and product strategy at Lila Sciences while advising and investing in frontier biotech and AI ventures, he’s as comfortable modeling spacecraft behaviors as designing ML-driven shop-floor systems. A less obvious strength: he routinely bridges domain extremes—deep scientific research and fast-paced commercial productization—making high-risk, high-impact research reproducible and deployable.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Research Assistant (Reinforcement Learning), Research Assistant (Reinforcement Learning) at University of Southern CaliforniaMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at California State University, NorthridgeCalifornia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Los AngelesMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree Biotechnology | Bioinformatics concentration, Master's degree Biotechnology | Bioinformatics concentration at Harvard UniversityMaster of Science - MS Biomedical Data Science, Master of Science - MS Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University
English, Spanish, Persian
Github Skills (6)
delay9
channel8
xposed8
nim-language6
reinforcement-learning5
machine-learning5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mehrzadshabez/proJam
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
mehrzadshabez/particle-detector
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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