Kanyes Thaker

Kanyes Thaker is a research engineer specializing in perception at Matic, with prior experience as an applied machine learning engineer at Snorkel AI, where significant contributions included designing and deploying ML pipelines for major clients and leading the development of a multi-label classification suite. Kanyes also co-founded Iris Co., a campus assistant app valued at $3 million shortly after launch, and held leadership roles on the board of directors and as president of MDB, an influential student tech entrepreneurship organization. Previous internships at Point72 and Goldman Sachs involved quantitative analysis and machine learning-driven analytics systems, while early research experience was gained at the Berkeley NetSys Lab. Kanyes earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.