Masood Mortazavi

Masood Seyed Mortazavi, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Engineer at Huawei in the US since May 2012, specializing in machine and statistical learning, distributed systems, and scalable databases.

With a wealth of experience, Masood has served in various roles at top-tier companies such as Yahoo, Sun Microsystems, and Teknowledge, focusing on cloud infrastructure, storage systems, and AI.

He has a strong educational background with degrees from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC San Diego, including studies in engineering, mathematics, philosophy, journalism, and business administration.

Masood's areas of expertise include business strategy, engineering management, intelligent computing, data mining, artificial intelligence, and enterprise software, across a spectrum of industries from telecommunications to scientific computing.

He has held key positions at Huawei Technologies, Yahoo!, and Sun Microsystems, showcasing his leadership and technical skills in architecting complex data infrastructures and scalable systems.

In addition to his industry roles, Masood has been involved in academia as an adjunct faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, instructor at UC Berkeley, and visiting professor at various international universities.

His achievements in the field have been recognized through his appointments as Chief Architect, Senior Director of Research, and Distinguished Engineer at Huawei, as well as his contributions to research projects in DARPA-funded initiatives.

With a diverse background spanning logic and methodology of science, AI, and journalism, Masood brings a unique perspective to technical challenges and has a keen interest in the intersection of technology and society.