Tarin Ziyaee

Tarin is a technologist and entrepreneur w/ 20+ years of experience in deep-tech applied R&D. Previously, Tarin led and developed autonomous vehicle (AV) technology for Apple, US Army Research Labs, and as CTO of Voyage (acquired by Cruise). Tarin’s previous DoD work included RADAR / SONAR simulation, imaging, and perception algorithms, along with jamming / anti-jamming adaptive systems for US Army and Naval Underwater Warfare Center (NUWC). Concurrently as CEO of Neurosys, he worked on developing neural spike-sorting algorithms for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to better understand the biological basis of the brain’s encoding of visual information. More recently, Tarin led the research engineering team at Meta’s Reality Labs designing neural interfaces, and was previously Director R&D at CTRL-Labs (acquired by Meta) where he and his team developed biophysics constrained neural interface decoding algorithms and systems. Tarin holds a BSEE from George Mason University (2004) and an MSEE from George Washington University (2007).