Dr Shayegan Omidshafiei

President & Chief Scientific Officer at FieldAI

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With over a decade of autonomous robotics and machine learning experience, Dr. Shayegan Omidshafiei is leading FieldAI’s AI and Science efforts. His focus is building Field Foundation Models™ alongside broader cutting-edge AI/ML models that can adapt to unforeseen challenges in real-world deployment.

Dr. Omidshafiei has a rare background that combines field robotics with the most cutting edge AI advancements. Prior to FieldAI, he was a leading Research Scientist at Google and DeepMind for over 5 years, focused on training and evaluation of large-scale AI models, co-leading several major research efforts on single and multi-agent deep reinforcement learning and sequential decision-making. Dr. Omidshafiei earned his PhD and SM from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.