Hesaam Esfandyarpour
Serial Deep-Tech Entrepreneur | Stanford PhD | Inventor (90+ patents) | Founder & CEO at VIVAI | Building World Model Architectures for Advanced Reasoning
- Role
- Senior Advisor and Partner at REMspace Inc.
- Location
- Redwood City, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Hesaam Esfandyarpour
I am a serial entrepreneur and deep-tech architect focused on engineering 10x innovations at the intersection of AI, semiconductors, and complex systems. Over the past two decades, I have built and led interdisciplinary teams to scale foundational technologies from lab-bench concepts to $1B+ valuations, securing over $350M in institutional funding.My track record includes architecting the first high-accuracy silicon-chip DNA sequencing platforms, managing global supply chains, and building high-performing teams of 175+ PhD-level experts. I am a Stanford PhD with 90+ issued patents worldwide.Currently, I am the Founder and CEO of VIVAI, where we are engineering a new foundation for artificial intelligence. We are moving beyond the probabilistic limits of LLMs toward World Model architectures designed to handle the complexity, constraints, and non-stationary dynamics of the real world.
Experience
Senior Advisor and Partner
Jan 2024 — Present · US
REMspace combines proprietary technologies in cognitive science and AI to create a new interface between consciousness, neuroscience, and technology. By developing intelligent tools for REM-stage interaction, REMspace is building the interface between dreams and intelligence—capturing the language of dreams to fuel scientific and technological breakthroughs.
Education
Stanford University School of Medicine
Master of , Medicine
Sharif University of Technology
Bachelor of Science (Hons) , Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Master's degree, Management, Science and Engineering
Sharif University of Technology
Bachelor's degree, Petroleum & Environmental Engineering
Stanford University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Master's degree, Electrical Engineering
Skills
- Matlab
- Genomics
- Proteomics
- Machine Learning
- Microfluidics
- Simulations
- Molecular Biology
- Patents
- Biotechnology
- Analog Circuit Design
- Algorithms
- Life Sciences
- Mems
- Nanotechnology
- Signal Processing
- R&D
- Sequencing
- Dna Sequencing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Bioinformatics
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