Esmaeil Mousavi

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of navNote AI. AI/ML lead researcher and graduate teaching fellow at Weber State University. San Jose, California.

Who Is Esmaeil Mousavi?

Esmaeil Mousavi is an AI/ML researcher and technology entrepreneur working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and the physical world. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of navNote AI, the AI OS for retail, and an AI/ML lead researcher and graduate teaching fellow at Weber State University, where he is completing a B.S. in Computer Science. He is based in San Jose, California.

Key Facts

Full name
Esmaeil Mousavi
Role
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, navNote AI
Also
AI/ML lead researcher and graduate teaching fellow, Weber State University
Born
2001, Yasuj, Iran. Moved to the United States in 2022.
Based in
San Jose, California (Silicon Valley), United States
Education
B.S. Computer Science, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
Fields
Agentic AI, computer vision, autonomous systems, backend architecture
Patent application
WO/2020/026037, Two-Stroke X-Shaped Engine (WIPO, 2020)
Email
esmaeil@navNote.ai

Biography

Esmaeil Mousavi was born in Yasuj, Iran in 2001 and came to the United States in 2022 to continue his studies in computer science. At Weber State University he moved from assistant researcher to lead researcher, working on perception for autonomous vehicles with reinforcement learning and 3D LiDAR, decentralized swarm learning for collaborative obstacle recognition, machine-learning defenses against acoustic denial-of-service attacks on storage hardware, and predictive modeling on decade-long environmental sensor datasets. While still an undergraduate he co-designed and taught CS 6300, a graduate-level course in route planning and navigation for autonomous systems, with hands-on labs on TurtleBot, InDro, and F1Tenth platforms.

At age 17 he designed an internal-combustion engine architecture called the Two-Stroke X-Shaped Engine and took it through the full Patent Cooperation Treaty filing process on his own. The World Intellectual Property Organization published it in 2020 as WO/2020/026037 (application PCT/IB2019/051532, IPC F02B 75/22). It is a published international application rather than a granted patent.

navNote grew out of his research at Weber State. What began as a faculty-mentored project in Ogden, Utah became a company: an AI OS for retail where agents interpret what is happening on the store floor, reason about what should happen next, and move real work through a mobile layer, cloud agents, and a live operations dashboard. Mousavi has raised over $250K in angel investment plus non-dilutive state and university awards, built partnerships with Kroger, mimik Technologies, Perplexity, and iHub Utah, and assembled an executive and advisory board drawn from senior leaders at large enterprises. In 2026 he relocated navNote's technical operations to San Jose, California.

Experience

  • navNote AI, Founder and Chief Executive Officer (2025 to present), San Jose, CA and Manhattan, NY. Leads product, AI research, and company direction across large-scale image understanding, predictive analytics, autonomous task orchestration, and scalable backend architecture.
  • Weber State University, Lead Researcher in AI/ML and Backend Systems (2025 to 2026), Ogden, UT. Led the faculty-mentored applied research that became navNote AI.
  • Weber State University, Assistant Researcher in AI for Autonomous Vehicles and Perception (Oct 2022 to May 2025). Improved obstacle-recognition accuracy by 25% with SWARM learning models; organized 25+ research tours and lectures.
  • Weber State University, Graduate Assistant Teacher for CS 6300 Route Planning and Navigation (Mar 2023 to Dec 2023).
  • Weber State University, Assistant Researcher in ML for Acoustic Denial and Cybersecurity (Jan 2023 to May 2025). Simulated 100+ acoustic denial-of-service attacks on hard disk drives and reduced failure rates by 40% with ML-based mitigation.
  • National Center for Water Quality Research, Assistant Researcher in ML and Data Visualization (Nov 2021 to Sep 2022), Tiffin, OH. Forecast Sandusky River water-quality trends up to eight years ahead from decade-long datasets.

Research Focus

  • Agentic AI for retail and physical operations
  • Computer vision and perception for autonomous vehicles
  • Reinforcement learning and decentralized swarm learning
  • ML-based cybersecurity and acoustic denial-of-service defense
  • Predictive modeling on environmental sensor data
  • Scalable backend architecture for AI systems

Patent, Publications, and Selected Projects

  • Two-Stroke X-Shaped Engine. Sole inventor. International patent application PCT/IB2019/051532, filed 26 February 2019 and published by WIPO on 6 February 2020 as WO/2020/026037.
  • Machine Intelligence Solution for Acoustic Denial-of-Service Attacks on HDDs. NCUR 2025 submission.
  • Forecasting Sandusky River Particulate Phosphorus Ratios. National Center for Water Quality Research, 2022.
  • Real-time obstacle detection for autonomous vehicles. Deep learning, multi-LiDAR sensing, and collaborative perception.

Awards and Honors

  • 7th place nationally, International Mathematics Competition (IMC Olympiad)
  • Top-ranked, National Entrance Examination, National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET), Iran
  • $5,000 Office of Undergraduate Research award toward the NCUR presentation cycle
  • Weber State MicroFund and State Award, $10,000 combined, non-dilutive, for navNote AI
  • iHub Utah residency for navNote AI
  • Selected for the Perplexity Business Fellowship with access to Perplexity AI Labs

Leadership and Service

  • Ambassador, IBM Z Mainframe Systems (2024 to 2025)
  • Senator, College of Engineering, Applied Science and Technology, Weber State University (2023 to 2024)
  • Member, Faculty Senate Committees (Academic Resources; IT Advisory), Weber State University (2023 to 2024)
  • Student Advisor, NVIDIA and HPE Swarm Learning Project (2023)
  • Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Verified Profiles and Records

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Contact navNote

navNote AI. Headquarters
5550 Hellyer Ave
San Jose, CA 95138, United States
Phone: +1 (332) 203-5323
Email: contact@navNote.ai

navNote also runs a private Innovation Center in the Flatiron district of Manhattan, New York, NY (by appointment only - not open to the public).