Hooman Shayani is a Sr. Principal AI Research Scientist at Autodesk AI Lab in London, UK. He joined Autodesk after acquisition of Within Technologies in 2014. His research at Autodesk has been mostly focused on simulation, optimization, and machine learning for generative design, additive manufacturing, and creative AI. He has papers and patents on spiking neural networks, bio-inspired computing, evolutionary algorithms, generative systems, evolvable hardware, additive manufacturing and generative design.