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. Check out my MIT CSAIL research spotlight.

Working on agentic AI architectures for automated system design and heuristic algorithm analysis.

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.

Selected Publications
CAIS’26 Engram: Improving Coherence and Persistence in Agentic AI for System Optimization
P. Karimi*, K. Noorbakhsh*, M. Alizadeh, H. Balakrishnan
CAIS’26 Glia: A Human-Inspired AI for Automated Systems Design and Optimization
P. Hamadanian*, P. Karimi*, A. Nasr-Esfahany*, K. Noorbakhsh*, J. Chandler, A. ParandehGheibi, M. Alizadeh, H. Balakrishnan
NSDI’26 MetaEase: Heuristic Analysis from Source Code via Symbolic-Guided Optimization
P. Karimi, S. K. R. Kakarla, P. Namyar, S. Segarra, R. Beckett, M. Alizadeh, B. Arzani

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Pantea Karimi

  • (2023) M.S. EECS, MIT
  • (2020) B.S. EE, Sharif

News

20 June, 2026

Savaal (our paper on scalable concept-driven question generation) got accepted to TMLR (Transactions on Machine Learning Research).

29 May, 2026

Our work Engram has been selected for the Industry Spotlight Designation (Research Papers) by the AI Engineer World Fair.

6 May, 2026

My research is featured in an MIT News article on stress-testing cloud computing algorithms to avoid network failures.

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