Behzad Heravi is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Vortex, developing innovative Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies for Smart Cities, Industry 4.0 and Smart Infrastructure. Behzad has a background in delivering Wireless Mesh Networks, Hyper-local Air Quality Monitoring, LiDAR Urban Scanning Systems and AI/5G-enabled technologies.
His career spans over 18 years in leading innovation projects and published research in Information Theory, Wireless Sensor Networks, Sensor Fusion and Artificial Intelligence.
Behzad and his team were awarded for Innovation in Air Quality as recently as 2020
Behzad has a PhD degree in Communication Systems from Lancaster University and is currently an honorary research fellow at Swansea University.