# Ramin Hasani

> Ramin Hasani is the co-founder and CEO of Liquid AI, the MIT CSAIL spin-off building Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs) - a family of general-purpose AI systems descended from his work on liquid neural networks. Inspired by the 302-neuron nervous system of the C. elegans worm, his continuous-time architectures adapt after training and run efficiently on edge hardware. Liquid AI raised a $250M Series A led by AMD in December 2024 at a $2.35B valuation.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Liquid AI
- **Organizations:** Liquid AI, MIT CSAIL, Vanguard Group (former), TU Wien (alumnus)
- **Nationality:** Persian-Austrian
- **Education:** PhD in Computer Science (with distinction), Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
- **Known for:** Co-invented Liquid Neural Networks and Liquid Time-Constant networks, PhD with distinction from TU Wien (2020), TÜV Austria Dissertation Award nomination (2020)

## Career timeline

- **2020** — Completed PhD with distinction at TU Wien on liquid neural networks
- **2020** — Joined MIT CSAIL as postdoctoral associate with Prof. Daniela Rus
- **2021** — MIT team publishes Liquid Time-Constant (LTC) networks paper
- **2022** — Named Principal AI/ML Scientist at Vanguard Group (joint with CSAIL affiliation)
- **2022** — HPC Innovation Excellence Award
- **2023** — Co-founded Liquid AI with Mathias Lechner, Alexander Amini, and Daniela Rus
- **2023** — Received Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award, IST Austria
- **2024** — Liquid AI raises $250M Series A led by AMD at $2.35B valuation

## Achievements

- Co-invented Liquid Neural Networks and Liquid Time-Constant networks
- PhD with distinction from TU Wien (2020)
- TÜV Austria Dissertation Award nomination (2020)
- HPC Innovation Excellence Award (2022)
- Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award, IST Austria (2023)
- Co-founded Liquid AI - $250M Series A led by AMD, $2.35B valuation
- TEDx speaker (Vienna, MIT)

## Latest updates

- **2024-12** — Liquid AI closed $250M Series A led by AMD Ventures at a $2.35B valuation.
- **2025** — Liquid AI shipped LFM2 family of edge-native foundation models.

## Links

- Website: https://www.raminhasani.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raminhasani
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/LiquidAI_
- YouTube: https://www.ted.com/talks/ramin_hasani_simple_artificial_brains_to_govern_complex_tasks

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