Moe Vazifeh

About Me

I’m a Boston-based scientist and computer programmer with a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of British Columbia. Over the last decade, I’ve applied my expertise in math, programming, AI, data science, and optimization to develop data-driven solutions within both academic research and industry.

After graduating from my PhD program, I spent a year as a senior algorithm researcher at a quantum computing company in Vancouver, Canada. I also worked at MIT as a complexity and computer science researcher. During this time, I led interdisciplinary research in large scale data science, computer science and optimization, resulting in several publications in top-tier journals like Nature. My research has contributed to advancements in several fields, with some projects being featured at the MIT Museum.

For the past six years, as CTO and cofounder at Adaviv, I’ve been managing a cross-functional team of engineers and scientists. I’ve been hands-on involved in the design, development and deployment of Adaviv’s tech stack and software for global clients. I have a deep passion for problem-solving and a strong track record of leading teams to address complex technical challenges.

I remain actively involved in the research community, contributing as a reviewer for journals such as Science Robotics.

Media

• [Dec. 2023] an opinion piece I wrote on the impact of the recent breakthroughs in AI in agriculture is published in greenhouse grower magazine.
• [Oct. 2023] Adaviv is expanded to several greenhouse farms across Mexico.
• [June. 2023] Three of the five MIT projects I contributed to as a researcher exhibited at MIT Museum (Mapping the [In]visible).
• [Feb. 2022] Adaviv’s Field and Farm Software solution is deployed across several large scale greenhouse farms in the US.
• [May. 2021] Our paper on discovering a new universal law of human movement behavior is published in Nature with news and views commentary and has received extensive media coverage.
• [Mar. 2020] MIT news writes about our paper on genomics data in collaboration with National Geographic Society and MIT-Harvard Broad Institute.
• [Apr. 2019] Our project, Minimum Fleet Network, is in the honarable mentions list of the Fast Company’s world changing ideas in the transportation category.
• [May. 2018] Our paper about a new taxi fleet dispatching optimization algorithm which was published in Nature with extensive media coverage gets the spotlight on MIT’s website.

Selected Publications

Services

Journal Reviewers

• Science Robotics
• American Physical Society's Physical Review Letters
• American Physical Society's Physical Review B
• IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine