Amir Mortazavi, PhD

Director, Systems Engineering + Artificial Intelligence

Amir Mortazavi, PhD oversees the multi-disciplinary system simulation, design, and optimization and design of advanced machine learning systems for analyzing and controlling the buildings in GreenGen’s engineering group, which is responsible for assessments, solution design, engineering, and data analytics. He designs and optimizes HVAC systems, conventional and renewable power systems, food and chemical manufacturing processes along with their control systems to maximize system performance, as well as A.I. based control systems for the buildings. Amir is Chair of GreenGen’s Technology Review Committee.

Amir has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, as well as a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland, where he was part of Center of Environmental Engineering (CEEE), Design Decision Support Lab (DDSL) and Institute of System Research (ISR).

Amir did his PhD research at University of Maryland in two fields – waste heat utilization and robust optimization , and he has over 17 years of industry experience in design and optimization of energy systems. As an energy engineer at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi UAE, he supported the waste heat utilization project of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company group companies. Amir also worked at Twitter enhancing their data centers' energy consumption.