BACKGROUND
Experience & honors
Research and industry roles, education, awards, and teaching.
EXPERIENCE
Research & industry
PhD Research Scientist Intern, AI for Product Design
May – Aug 2026Meta · Sunnyvale, CA
- Built a multi-agent AI system that automates mechanical engineering workflows: CAD drawing inspection, parametric model generation, 2D drawing automation, and FEA surrogate modeling.
- Developed an AI-native VR design app where engineers use voice and hand gestures to generate 3D geometry, run FE simulations, and navigate real product assemblies.
- Trained ML surrogate models for fast forward and inverse display design, enabling real-time performance prediction and optimization.
Graduate Research Assistant
Sep 2024 – PresentMIT DeCoDe Lab · Advisor: Prof. Faez Ahmed
- Research on AI for multimodal CAD generation: large-scale datasets and models for parametric design generation, UI action learning, and precision-controlled optimization.
- Collaborations with Toyota Research Institute, Siemens, and GE Vernova.
Graduate Research Assistant, CHARM Lab
Sep 2023 – Apr 2024Stanford University · Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine
- Designed the system and control of a neurosurgery robot combining an endoscope, an exoscope, and robotic arms.
- Trained the da Vinci surgical robot to autonomously retract tissues of varying stiffness.
Hardware Engineering Intern
Jun – Sep 2023Google · Mountain View, CA
- Ran a competitive reliability benchmarking study of tablets, including hands-on reliability testing and failure analysis.
- Wrote actionable design guidelines (water-ingress resistance, battery-to-carrier clearance) and analyzed how system-integration features correlate with robustness.
Graduate Research Assistant
Jan – Jun 2023Stanford School of Medicine · Supervisor: Dr. Keren Haroush
- Built real-time decoding of a monkey's decisions in an iterated Battle of the Sexes game from neural spikes, reaching 90% accuracy.
Design Research Engineer, ME310
Sep 2022 – Jun 2023Stanford × Johnson & Johnson · Supervisors: Dr. Mark Cutkosky, Dr. George Toye
- Designed and built a smart pharmacy that dispenses single-packaged pills from UI orders (Raspberry Pi), through need-finding, benchmarking, and rapid iterative prototyping.
Robotics Research Intern
Apr – Jun 2022Laboratory of Optics and Biosciences (LOB), CNRS · Palaiseau, France
- Developed an Arduino-controlled, 3D-printed actuator for an organ-on-a-chip platform that renews cell-culture media automatically.
Research Engineer Intern (Bachelor Thesis)
Jan – Mar 2022Solid Mechanics Laboratory (LMS), CNRS · Supervisor: Prof. Kostas Danas
- Characterized a 3D-printed polymer using a SolidWorks-designed setup, a hydraulic press, and DIC, then fitted a hyperelastic elastomer model.
Research Data Scientist Intern
Jun – Aug 2021Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory (LMD-IPSL), CNRS · Supervisor: Dr. Riwal Plougonven
- Analyzed gravity waves from 13 stratospheric balloons that flew over Antarctica for months, and built a metric that matches virtual balloon trajectories to real ones.
HONORS
Awards & fellowships
2026
MIT Prize for Open Data
MIT School of Science and MIT Libraries, for VideoCAD
2026
Overall Best Paper Award & AI/ML Track Best Paper Award
ASME IDETC-CIE 2026, for FLARE
2026
GE Vernova Graduate Fellowship
MIT
2026
MIT Thomas Sheridan Award
For creativity in human–machine integration, MIT Mechanical Engineering
2024
Jamieson Presidential Fellowship
MIT
2022
Class Valedictorian, Summa Cum Laude
Bachelor Program, École Polytechnique
2019–2022
Outstanding Student Distinction
École Polytechnique, for dedication to the school community and to the welfare of society
2021
Bronze Medal, International Mathematics Competition (IMC)
University students' mathematics olympiad
2020
Excellence Scholarship
École Polytechnique Foundation
2019
Excellence-Major Scholarship
French Government (AEFE), highly selective
2018
First Prize, USJ Science Fair
For building an autonomous delivery car
2017–2018
Math & Informatics Competitions
1st prize, Mathématiques sans Frontières · 2nd prize, Course aux Nombres · 3rd prize, Castor Informatique
Certification
Certified SolidWorks Associate (CSWA)
Dassault Systèmes
EDUCATION
Education
Sep 2024 – Present
MIT
PhD, AI for Engineering Design
- GPA 5.0 / 5.0 · Advisor: Prof. Faez Ahmed (DeCoDe Lab)
- Jamieson Presidential Fellow · GE Vernova Fellow
- MIT Thomas Sheridan Award (2026)
- Research: AI for CAD generation, 3D generative models, and design agents
- TA for 2.155: AI and ML for Engineering Design
Sep 2022 – Jun 2024
Stanford University
MS, Mechanical Engineering
- GPA 4.0 / 4.0
- Robotics, Design & AI
- ML, Computer Vision, Decision Making under Uncertainty, Robot Autonomy
Sep 2019 – Jun 2022
École Polytechnique
BS, Mathematics & Physics
- GPA 4.22 / 4.0 · Class Valedictorian, Summa Cum Laude
- Minor in Biology
- President of the Robotics, Math, and Arts clubs
Sep – Dec 2021
University of Toronto
Exchange Semester, Engineering · GPA 4.0 / 4.0
Jul 2021
CentraleSupélec
Summer School, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
TEACHING & SERVICE
Teaching, leadership & skills
Teaching
Fall 2025
2.155: AI and ML for Engineering Design
Teaching Assistant · MIT
Held weekly office hours and mentored 80+ students on their final projects.
2023 – 2024
MATH 104: Applied Matrix Theory
Teaching Assistant · Stanford University
Ran weekly office hours and review sessions for 100+ students.
Leadership & volunteering
2020 – 2021
General Secretary, L'ORE
Student Government of the Bachelor Program, École Polytechnique
Led a team of nine, organized monthly social events, and raised funds for a water fountain in Laos with Safe Water Cube.
2019 – 2022
President, Robotics Club
École Polytechnique Bachelor Program
Led the Robotics Club, and also served as president of the Mathematics and Arts clubs.
2017 – 2022
Team Leader, SSCC Missionary Group
Lebanon
Organized activities for children and elderly people in need, and helped people affected by the August 4th explosion in Beirut.
Beyond research
Hobbies
Art, music & sports
Drawing, painting, playing the piano, soccer, tennis, squash, pickleball, and prototyping. Languages: French, English, Arabic, and some Japanese.
Skills
- ML & Code
- PythonPyTorchTensorFlowC++JuliaMATLABGit
- CAD & Sim
- SolidWorks (CSWA)Fusion 360OnshapeCadQueryMuJoCoROS
- Hardware
- ArduinoRaspberry Pi3D PrintingPrototypingHand Drafting