Leadership

Dr. Nasrin Mostafazadeh is a world-renowned AI scientist and co-founder of Verneek, a deep tech AI startup backed by business and scientific luminaries. Verneek's mission is to build the most helpful AI, enabling anyone to interact with any environment using intelligent conversational interfaces with deep domain expertise. She was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 in 2019 for her contributions to the research and development of AI systems for the past 18 years.

Before Verneek, she held senior research positions at major big tech companies and deep-tech startups, ranging from Microsoft and Google to BenevolentAI. She received her PhD in AI with a focus on Natural Language Processing and Commonsense Reasoning. She has been a keynote speaker, chair, published author, and committee member at major business and scientific forums.

Dr. Omid Bakhshandeh is an AI scientist and co-founder of Verneek, a deep tech AI startup backed by business and scientific luminaries. Verneek's mission is to build the most helpful AI, enabling anyone to interact with any environment using intelligent conversational interfaces with deep domain expertise. Omid leads the entire product and technology at Verneek, in line with his more than two decades of experience in the research and development of AI systems. Omid founded and successfully led various AI teams.

Before Verneek, he held research positions at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), Adobe Research, and the University of Rochester. He received his PhD in AI with a focus on Natural Language Understanding and Dialogue Systems, having pioneered building systems that have a domain-general understanding of language. He is a published author in major AI publications.