Bilal Asmatullah is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sciloop, where he is building AI systems designed to operate as autonomous research partners—capable of forming hypotheses, navigating experimental dead-ends, and iterating toward new scientific insights. His work focuses on pushing beyond benchmark-driven model performance toward AI that can reason under uncertainty and develop scientific “taste,” particularly in open-ended research settings. He is an MIT ’27 student on leave, with research experience across AI, digital health, and applied machine learning, including work within the MIT CSAIL ecosystem. Prior to Sciloop, he represented Pakistan at the International Physics Olympiad, earning a bronze medal. He has since worked at the intersection of research and entrepreneurship, drawing on deep technical training and firsthand experience with the limitations of current AI systems in real scientific workflows.