3x founder
Pari Latawa
Co-Founder at Illume Labs | MIT MEng & BS in CS + Bio
Experience
Career
2026Illume Labs (YC S26)
Co-founderCo-Founder · 2026 – Present
2022MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program
Co-founderCo-Founder, EasyComm · 2022 – Present
2023MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Undergraduate Researcher at Langer/Traverso Lab · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2023 – 2026
2022Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Graduate & Undergraduate Researcher at Feng Zhang Lab · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2022 – 2026
2025Eli Lilly and Company
AI Research Intern · 2025
2025MIT Department of Mathematics
Introduction to Probability and Statistics (18.05) Teaching Assistant · 2025
2024MD Anderson Cancer Center
Undergraduate Student Researcher · Houston, TX · 2024
2019SparkED Organization
FounderFounder & Executive Director · 2019 – 2024
2023Dianox
Scientific Research Intern · Copenhagen · 2023
2022Boston Medical Center (BMC)
Autism Resources Program Intern · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2022 – 2023
2022MIT Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center (PKG Center)
Health Intern · 2022 – 2023
2021oval.bio
Intern · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area · 2021 – 2022
2021UC Irvine
Computational Biology Research · 2021 – 2022
2021Kenyon College
Coding Theory & Cryptography Research Intern · 2021
2020International Socioeconomics Laboratory
Research Fellow · 2020 – 2021
2019Harvard Student Agencies
Intern · 2019 – 2020
2019Schlumberger
Oil-X SEED Program · Sugar Land, Texas, United States · 2019
Bio
Founder at Illume Labs (S26). MIT MEng & BS in CS + Biology. Research @ Broad Institute, Koch Institute, Eli Lilly, MD Anderson Cancer Center, & Danish biotech startup. Prev Founder + CEO of 501(c)(3) NPO, SparkED and EasyComm. National achievements: Regeneron International Science & Engineering Fair, Regeneron STS, Apple Scholar, Coca-Cola Scholar, National Science Olympiad Top 10 3x.