Aayam Bansal is Co-Founder at Synthetic Sciences (YC W26), a platform that deploys AI co-scientists to automate scientific research workflows from literature review to experimentation. The company serves researchers across ML, computational biology, and other scientific domains.

Aayam conducted research at MIT CSAIL, Carnegie Mellon University, and National University of Singapore, publishing papers at NeurIPS, ICML, and AAAI workshops. He previously founded aisock, an AI-powered orthopedic sock that was acquired at five figures.

Aayam is a Z Fellows member and Emergent Ventures recipient who built and patented medical AI technology while still a teenager. He co-led AI and automation for NASA's Space Settlement Design Competition, achieving 1st runners-up in the Indian and Asian rounds.

Synthetic Sciences has raised over $1.5 million in funding and was accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch. The platform achieves 92% accuracy on BixBench Verified for computational biology research and offers scientists $5 in free credits to test the platform.

Aayam previously built COVID-19 infrastructure that served over 50,000 users daily and contributed to 3 papers at ICML 2025 workshops during his research fellowship at Carnegie Mellon. His work spans foundation models for time series data and temporal encoding strategies for energy prediction.