Dr. Reza Olfati-Saber is the founder and chief scientist of Wisdom Agent Inc. and the creator of MOSAIC. He is the most cited researcher in multi-agent systems — the mathematical study of how diverse agents coordinate, collaborate, and create collective intelligence.
His foundational research in consensus algorithms, flocking theory, and distributed control established the theoretical foundations now used across robotics, distributed computing, sensor networks, and autonomous systems. His work has been cited over 50,000 times, making him one of the most influential researchers in engineering and computer science.
Academic Foundation
Dr. Olfati-Saber holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, where his doctoral work in nonlinear control and dynamical systems laid the mathematical foundations he would later extend to multi-agent networks and coalition theory. He conducted postdoctoral research at Caltech in Control and Dynamical Systems, where he pioneered the consensus algorithms that became among the most cited results in engineering.
He served on the faculty of Dartmouth College’s Thayer School of Engineering, where he continued his research program while training the next generation of researchers in networked systems and collective intelligence.
Industry Leadership
Dr. Olfati-Saber has held senior AI leadership positions at three Fortune 500 organizations:
- Sanofi — VP & Global Head of AI, leading enterprise-wide AI strategy and deployment
- Ernst & Young — Managing Director & Chief AI Scientist, building AI capabilities across the firm’s service lines
- AbbVie — Senior AI leadership, applying advanced analytics to pharmaceutical R&D
These experiences — building AI at scale inside Fortune 500 organizations and observing the systematic failures firsthand — motivated the research program that became the unified framework and the advisory platform that became MOSAIC.
Recognition
Dr. Olfati-Saber received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2010 — the highest honor the U.S. government bestows on early-career researchers. This award recognized both the foundational importance of his theoretical contributions and their practical impact across multiple domains.
“Other firms advise based on what they’ve seen. We advise based on what we can prove. The mathematics of collective intelligence is clear: diversity is resilience, collaboration outperforms autonomy, and the composition of diverse capabilities creates value that no single agent can achieve alone. MOSAIC exists to help leaders act on these truths with precision.”