Faiz Mirza

Faiz Mirza is a Senior Flight Software Engineer at Vast since July 2025, following a position as a Senior Software Engineer at Elementary, where work focused on developing an image processing pipeline for anomaly detection, color detection, classification, and OCR. As a lecturer at California State University, Los Angeles, Faiz taught courses in Artificial Intelligence. Previous experience includes roles as an AI Engineer at Beyond Limits and an Artificial Intelligence Researcher and Developer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where contributions included the development of MEXEC for small satellites. Academic credentials include a Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence from The University of Edinburgh and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Riverside.