Arya is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Sapien, where he is building AI systems designed to run companies. Previously, Arya conducted research at Trishul Lab, focusing on neurosymbolic models and symbolic regression, with papers accepted at ICLR, NeurIPS, and ICML. He has held technical roles at Foundry and MITRE, where he developed advanced ML algorithms for optimization, out-of-distribution detection, and generative graph models. Arya studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was part of the Turing CS Honors program and competed in ICPC regionals for competitive programming.