Leadership & Faculty

The Minds Behind NavalAI

We are an ocean engineering team leveraging AI, PID controllers, autonomous systems, and advanced naval architecture expertise to build novel applications and products. Have an innovative idea or need a custom project developed? Connect with us.

Co-Founders

Ahmad Hajivand

Dr. Ahmad Hajivand

Co-Founder & Principal Scientist

University Professor at KMSU and a Senior Fluid Dynamics specialist. Leading expert in advanced computational fluid analysis, PID controllers, and autonomous systems engineering.

CFD Senior PID Control Fluid Statics Ship Design
Poorya Khorsandy

Poorya Khorsandy

Co-Founder & Chief AI Architect

Holds a Master's degree in Naval Architecture. Senior AI systems developer specialized in deep learning regression architectures and complex fluid tracking models via StarCCM+.

AI Engineering StarCCM+ Programming Ship Design

Research Laboratory Staff

Mostafa Jafarzadeh Khatibani

Mostafa Jafarzadeh Khatibani

Senior Data Scientist

Specializes in cleaning hydrodynamic tank-test dataset arrays and constructing neural pipeline layers for automation tracking.

PyTorch Data Cleansing
Dr. Marcus Vance

Dr. Marcus Vance

Hydrodynamics Researcher

Focuses on validation modeling of shallow water resistance waves and boundary layer mesh verification.

Mesh Gen Ansys Fluent
Elena Rostova

Elena Rostova

Full-Stack Interface Developer

Maintains systems architectures, plotting engines, and web-visualization pipelines for high-performance math processing.

Web Graphics Django Rest