EF Alumni

Mohammad Reza Vedady

CTO, TranferFi

Founded:

Cofounder:

Interests / background:

Engineering, Hardware, IOT, Wireless Technology

Location:

Singapore

Cohort:

Mohammad Reza is an award-winning engineer specialized in electronics hardware design, Industrial IoT (IIoT), Radio Frequency (RF) systems, smart power grids, operations research, and wireless power transfer (WPT) technologies. He has published highly cited papers in prestigious IEEE journals and international conferences, and is known as a pioneer researcher in the fields of waveform optimization and beamforming for WPT systems. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from National University of Singapore.

Company:

TransferFi

Creating the world’s first long-range, safe and efficient Wireless Power Network

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