Safiollah is a driven and self-motivated serial entrepreneur and a researcher in various fields such as distributed systems, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, AR/VR/MR and Internet of things. He has more than 15 years of experience in academia and industry where he has studied, taught, and turned academic research into commercial products. He has successfully created and managed effective teams to develop and deliver high value professional services. He has developed and led different projects in finance, marketing, security, retail, large-scale data analysis and healthcare. He has also published a number of papers in top-ranked venues and has been highly awarded during his career. Safiollah's passion is applying his knowledge and expertise on complex research/business problems to build creative practical solutions.