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Our Mission.

Our mission at AICrete is to revolutionize the global concrete operations by significantly increasing profitability, sustainability, efficiency, and productivity in real-time through our transformative all-in-one AI-powered operating system, AICreteOS, harnessing the power of AI, machine learning, computer vision, software, and automation. 

Our Story.

Our story began with a simple idea: to use artificial intelligence to transform concrete operations. Our founder, Parham Aghdasi, saw an opportunity to increase profitability and sustainability while improving efficiency and productivity. He assembled a team of experts in concrete engineering, AI, and software development to create AICreteOS. Since then, we’ve successfully completed 14 proof-of-concept projects and have saved concrete producers an average of $2.64 per cubic yard of concrete. AICrete has also avoided 22,855 tons of CO2 emissions thus far. We’re excited to continue pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the concrete industry.

A great team of industry experts

Parham was born and raised in Iran. Growing up, he loved learning, but his family did not have many financial resources, nor access to fancy private schools or teachers. After finishing high school, he started studying atomic physics at an Iranian university in 2006 before he was expelled for being a Baháʼí (a religious minority systematically persecuted in Iran). To pursue higher education, his only option was to go to an underground university (the Baháʼí Institute for Higher Education, or BIHE). He obtained his BS in Civil Engineering in 2011 from BIHE and was immediately accepted to the University of Texas at Arlington for his Master's. He left Iran at the age of 23 with only $6,000 in cash—just enough to pay half of his out-of-state tuition for the first semester, let alone living expenses and the rest of his tuition. But, by proving himself to his professors, and winning many different scholarships, fellowships, and research and instructor assistantships, he managed to finish his studies at UT Arlington, pave his way to a full-ride PhD program at UC Berkeley, and get his PhD in structural materials (concrete) without going into debt.

He has spent 10+ years of his life developing concrete composites for various projects from earthquake resistant moment-frame systems, ultra-high performance concrete for the DoD, multi-functional façade systems for energy-efficient buildings in Singapore, to deep ultra-high speed train tunnels in Japan, to mention a few. After his postdoc at Berkeley, he immediately launched AICrete in pursuit of his dream: to hasten the coming of age of predictable, cost-effective, durable, and sustainable concrete. Parham lives in California with his wife Katie and daughter Gloria, where they are involved in community-building activities and empowerment of youth.

Parham Aghdasi

CEO & Founder

Michael’s dynamic background in business development, construction, chemicals, and sustainability is coupled with a unique client perspective. Prior to joining AICrete as Vice President of Sales, Michael was the North American Commercial Director at GCP Applied Technologies for their concrete additives and IoT business lines.
 
He graduated from the University of Florida with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Sales Engineering Certificate and has been a LEED® Accredited Professional since 2004. He has held various positions in the construction, chemicals, engineering, and building technologies industries, ranging from estimator and project manager to various sales and management roles in Global 100 and multinational companies. 
 
Michael has served on various industry boards, including the Design Futures Council and the Urban Green Council (USGBC NY), and he has been nationally recognized for his efforts to bridge the chemical and construction industries with sustainable development. A Colorado native and avid skier and outdoorsman, Michael returned there in 2017 with his wife Amy and son Matthew after calling the NY Metro area home since 2003.
 
Education & Achievements
 
Commercial Director, GCP Applied Technologies 2018-2022
 
VP, Global Account Manager, CH2M (now Jacobs)
2016-2018
 
Center for Building Excellence Commercial Segment Manager, BASF
2013-2016
 
Center for Building Excellence Senior Advisor, BASF
2011-2013
 
Regional Sales Manager, Titan America
2007-2010
 
Estimating, Project Management, & Sales, Lafarge
1999-2007
 
Former Executive Board Member, Design Futures Council
 
Former Board Member, Urban Green Council, NYC
 
Promoter of the Year, Portland Cement Association
 

Michael Fletcher

Vice President of Sales & Marketing

James is a software development veteran who comes to AICrete with 15+ years of experience developing entire software platforms and products from the ground up. His products have serviced hundreds of thousands of customers in industries such as medical imaging, information security, publishing, music, chronic care management, and now concrete.
 
He graduated from the University of California, Davis in Biomedical Engineering in 2011. Prior to AICrete James was the Head of Engineering at Bodyport where, in addition to his development and management duties, was also responsible for SOC2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance and played a critical role in deploying calibration, research, and manufacturing applications in support of manufacturing and M2M carrier certification.
 

James Tan

Vice President of Software

Samira is an expert in statistics, Bayesian modeling, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. She has spent years researching cutting-edge fields and gained experience in academia and the industry due to her deep and comprehensive knowledge of data science and computer science. She is currently the Head of Engineering at AICrete.
 
She holds a Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering from the University of Arkansas, where she was a research assistant. Samira has also served as the Vice president of INFORMS student chapter at the University of Arkansas. Meanwhile, she published several papers in high-level data analytics and reliability journals. She has won several distinguished awards for her research work, including the Prognostics and System Health Management best paper award (2017), Society of Reliability Engineers best student paper award (2018), and Reliability and Maintainability Symposium second best paper award (2020).
 

Samira Karimi

Head of Engineering

Having worked mostly in the areas of Human Recourses and Marketing for startups, Julia has extensive experience in recruiting, talent management, content production, event planning and community management. She’s currently working as Chief of Staff at AICrete, serving as the chief spokesperson and building and strengthening relationships between team members to enhance awareness of company initiatives and culture.
 
Julia earned her Master’s of Industrial and Labor Relations degree from Cornell University with Human Resources Management concentration in 2018. Before joining AICrete, She was the Director of Content Marketing of a research video sharing platform with 200,000 audience. She has interviewed 100+ academic pioneers, startup founders and industry leaders, including but not limited to Turing Award winner, Yoshua Bengio, Stanford AI Lab Director, Chris Manning, Sinovation Founder, Kai-Fu Li, to mention a few. Julia is very passionate about helping startups grow and develop.
 

Julia Zhu

Head of Operations

Quentin graduated with his Master’s degree in Robotic Systems Development in 2021 from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a lead TA in the Intro to Machine Learning course and focused on building robotic systems with deep learning and artificial intelligence. After graduating, he moved to the Bay Area and worked for an agricultural drone startup, where he developed a computer vision solution for precision spraying of palm trees before joining AICrete. He is now a Computer Vision Engineer at AICrete working on applying cutting-edge technologies to the concrete industry.
 
Prior to his Master’s studies, Quentin worked as an Automation Engineer in the manufacturing industry in both Taiwan and Shanghai, gaining a deep understanding of factory automation and Mechanical Design and Engineering. At AICrete, he is working on combining this background with his expertise in Computer Vision to develop next generation products that are both transformational and practical.
 

Quentin Cheng

Computer Vision Engineer

Rotana Hay

Senior Research Scientist

Kathrina Khozein

Senior Software Engineer

Ryan King

Research & Development Specialist

Jordan joined AICrete as a Senior Laboratory Technician after relocating from the United Kingdom with an extensive and diverse background in concrete technology and testing. He worked in the UK construction industry for 6 years first in concrete R&D with chemical admixtures before moving into a concrete technologist role. He gained various qualifications through the Camberley Institute Of Concrete Technology (ICT). His specialties include concrete mix design development as well as testing and inspection of concrete.

Jordan Smith

Senior Technician

Marvin Stella

Senior Technician

Stephanie has an extensive background in technical services, quality control, business development, and sales in ready-mix concrete, volumetric concrete, manufactured concrete products, precast, aggregates, asphalt, chemical admixtures, as well as various types of cements and supplementary cementitious materials. She also has a broad background in developing quality control & quality assurance programs, working with value-added products & services, and optimizing construction materials while improving sustainability across all construction sectors. 
 
Stephanie prides herself on being customer centric focused; she has always been passionate about providing technical solutions that enhance her customers’ product performance, improve overall sustainability, and increase their profitability. Stephanie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering with minors in Management, Marketing and Sales from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute (RPI). While attending RPI, she founded and co-chaired Women in Engineering and Technology (WIET). She is also a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Society of Women Engineers (SWE), National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC), American Concrete Institute (ACI), and Habitat for Humanity. Since graduating, Stephanie has continued these passions, as well as being an active member in several construction associations in the Mid-Atlantic states, with a focus on topics such as technology, promotions, cementitious materials, and developing young leaders.
 
While Stephanie has always considered Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Delaware beaches her home, she now lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with her son, Camden, and daughter, Annabella. In their free time, they enjoy various activities in their surrounding communities, exploring the outdoors, crabbing, oyster gardening, and collecting sea glass at the Mid-Atlantic beaches. 
 
Industry Experience & Achievements
 
Northeast Region Senior Technical Sales Engineer, Heidelberg Materials, 2021-2023
 
Director of Technical Sales & Services, Stewart Companies, 2020-2021
 
Northern Division Business Development Manager, BASF, 2019-2020
 
Technical Sales Development Specialist, BASF, 2018-2019
 
Senior Technical Sales Representative, BASF, 2014-2018
 
Mid-Atlantic Quality Control Manager, Holcim, 2009-2014
 
Quality Control Manager, SJA Construction, 2005-2009 
 
Admixture Sales-Intern, BASF, 2005
 
Voting Member, Committee 132 – Responsibility in Concrete Construction, American Concrete Institute (ACI)
 
Board Member, American Concrete Institute, Maryland Chapter 
 
Research, Engineering & Standards Committee, National Ready Mix Concrete Association (NRMCA)
 
Former Board Member, Maryland Ready Mix Concrete Association (MRMCA)
 
Recipient of the 2022 MRMCA Recognition Award 
 
Construction Content Manager, Maryland Quality Initiative (MdQI) Outreach Subcommittee

Stephanie Hampton

Director of Technical Sales & Customer Success

Our Advisors.

Pieter Abbeel is Professor and Director of the Robot Learning Lab at UC Berkeley [2008- ], Co-Director of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, Co-Founder of http://covariant.ai [2017- ], Co-Founder of Gradescope [2014- ], Advisor to OpenAI, Founding Faculty Partner AI@TheHouse venture fund, Advisor to many AI/Robotics start-ups. He works in machine learning and robotics. In particular his research focuses on making robots learn from people (apprenticeship learning), how to make robots learn through their own trial and error (reinforcement learning), and how to speed up skill acquisition through learning-to-learn (meta-learning). His robots have learned advanced helicopter aerobatics, knot-tying, basic assembly, organizing laundry, locomotion, and vision-based robotic manipulation. He has won numerous awards, including best paper awards at ICML, NIPS and ICRA, early career awards from NSF, Darpa, ONR, AFOSR, Sloan, TR35, IEEE, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Pieter's work is frequently featured in the popular press, including New York Times, BBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Forbes, Tech Review, NPR.
 
Current main research thrusts: robotics and machine learning with particular focus on deep reinforcement learning, deep imitation learning, deep unsupervised learning, meta-learning, learning-to-learn, and AI safety.
 
Awards List:
 
ICRA 2021 Best Field Robotics Paper Finalist
ICRA 2021 Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Finalist
ICRA 2018 Best Paper Finalist
ICLR 2018 Best Paper Award
NIPS 2016 Best Paper Award
ICRA 2015 Best Robotic Manipulation Paper Award
ICRA 2015 Best Medical Robotics Paper Finalist
ICRA 2013 Best Vision Paper Award
ICRA 2012 Best Vision Paper Finalist
ICRA 2010 Best Medical Robotics Paper Award
ICML 2008 Best Application Paper Award
ACM Prize in Computing (2021)
Elected into Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten) (2022)
IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (IEEE Technical Field Award) (2022)
Diane McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching 2018 (Computer Science, UC Berkeley)
IEEE Fellow (class of 2018)
CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
Sloan Fellowship
National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program Award (NSF-CAREER)
Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Award (AFOSR-YIP)
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award (ONR-YIP)
Darpa Young Faculty Award (Darpa-YFA)
Okawa Foundation Award
MIT Technology Review Top 35 Innovators under 35 (TR35)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Career Award (IEEE-RAS Early Career Award)
Dick Volz Best U.S. Ph.D. Thesis in Robotics and Automation Award

Pieter Abbeel

Advisor

Technical Concrete Consultant, consulted for several companies such as Icrete, WR Grace, Lafarge, CarbonCure, etc. Presently operating under RMX Consultants LLC.
 
Previously Jack was Vice President Quality Assurance and New Product Development for Lafarge North America’s Concrete business 1998 to 2008. He first joined the company in April of 1984 as Manager of Quality Control. He progressed through a succession of positions of increasing responsibility, including Vice President Quality Assurance and Value Added Marketing for Lafarge’s Eastern Canada region, a position he held until his transfer to corporate headquarters in Herndon, Virginia.
 
Before joining Lafarge, Jack worked for Acres International and held various positions of increasing responsibility, from Laboratory Supervisor to Senior Concrete Advisor on major hydroelectric projects in Canada, Africa and India.
 
Jack has 45 years of experience in the design and control of concrete. He has been a key contributor to numerous projects including the Confederation Bridge in Prince Edward Island and the launch of Lafarge’s specialty concretes- Agilia ® and ArteviaTM.
 
Specialties: Concrete Mix Optimization, Product Development, Branded products, Promotion,
Plant Processes, Performance Concretes and Q/A Systems.
 

Jack Holly

Advisor

Monty retired as an executive leader with over 28 years of experience providing operational and sales management, planning, and consistent revenue growth for Command Alkon, a global software company providing products dedicated to the Construction Materials market segment. He was involved in leading growth organically, as well as through multiple acquisitions. He led corporate growth as Senior Vice President of Sales, Services and implemented a Customer Success program to improve the value proposition of products and services to the existing customer base. Monty was actively involved in the ready-mix concrete industry, including committee and board roles with the National Ready-Mix Concrete Association (NRMCA).
 
Monty holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications from Auburn University. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Alabama Chapter of SCORE, a volunteer role helping small and startup businesses through mentoring.
 
Monty is married to Melissa, with two children: Laurel, teaching at the High School of Fashion Industries in Manhattan, NY and Matt, an Instructor for Public Speaking at Auburn University.
 

Monty Newport

Advisor

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