Shayan Pardis

Shayan Pardis is a Research Engineer at Anysphere since June 2025, following a tenure as an Undergraduate Researcher at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from September 2024 to May 2025. Prior experience includes a brief position as an ML Research and Engineering Intern at Backflip in January 2025 and a Software Engineering Intern role at Citadel from June to August 2024. Shayan also contributed as an Undergraduate Researcher at MIT's Biomimetic Robotics Lab from February 2023 to May 2024, where a novel technique called Randomized Homotopy Optimization (R-HO) was developed, significantly enhancing the throughput of a Humanoid Robot’s controller. Shayan is pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expected to graduate in May 2025, and previously studied Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology from September 2020 to June 2022.