About me

I am Pantea Karimi, a Ph.D. student within the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. I am a member of the Networking and Mobile Systems Group, advised by Mohammad Alizadeh and Hari Balakrishnan. I also have research collaborations with Networking research group in Microsoft Research.

Current Research Interests

• Automatic Heuristic Algorithm Analysis and Design
• Network Optimization and Performance Analysis
• Scalable and Robust Applications using LLMs
• AI/ML Applications in Networking
  

Previously, I’ve worked on enhancing the quality of real-time video applications. I have worked on video congestion control algorithms and improving video conferencing applications using advanced computer vision and video compression techniques.

I received my M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2023, working with Mohammad Alizadeh. I received my B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the Sharif University of Technology at the top of my class, where I worked with Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali on Decentralized Systems and Blockchains. I’ve worked with Bryan Ford in an internship on Locality preserving Blockchains at EPFL.