Shayan Riyaz - شایان ریاض

Shayan in New York City Shayan in New York City

About Me

I am an engineer by profession with an interest in algorithms (classical and AI), data engineering and system architecture. I am currently a Senior R&D Engineer at NeuraNova, where I lead algorithms and software development for portable bioimpedance brain diagnostics. In July 2026 our STEDI device received FDA 510(k) clearance as an adjunct for assessing cerebral fluid volume asymmetry between brain hemispheres. My work runs end to end, from data collection and experiment design to algorithm deployment, and covers both internal research tools and on-device inference. Stroke classification remains active research.

Past Experiences

Industry

I previously have worked as an Algorithm Engineer at Masimo. My work there has revolved designing real-time algorithms for Biomedical devices fusing Inertial Measurement Units (IMU), Photoplethysmography (PPG), Phonocardiogram (PCG) and Electrocardiogram (ECG) sensors using Digital Signal Processing, Machine/Deep Learning and Bayesian Modeling.

Some of my projects at Masimo Include:

Miscellaneous

I have previously:

  • Contributed as an Open Source Developer at Major League Hacking.
  • Technical Content Developer and Project Lead at Bit Project.
  • Undergraduate, research assistant at HPRL under Dr. Emel Demircan. There I conducted research in Haptic Feedback and IMU based Musculoskeletal modeling.
  • Engineering intern at VectraCom in Karachi, Pakistan.

Primarily my experience with microcontrollers and software design drew me to Electrical Engineering, which I chose as my field of study at California State University, Long Beach graduating with a B.S in 2019.

Before that I studied Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA.

Current Interests

I am studying the following topics:

  • Artificial Intelligence (Machine/Deep Learning)
  • Signal Processing
  • Causal Modeling
  • Systems Engineering for Biomedical Devices

Contact Me

For collaborations and advising, please contact me via my personal Email.

If you have any questions regarding my GitHub open source projects, please open an issue ticket in the repository.