Farabi writing in a notebook at Plexal

About / Farabi Shayor

Scientist,
strategist and
author.

A connected practice spanning public service, research, technology strategy and publishing.

A connected practice / 01

Evidence for the future.Stories for the consequences.

Farabi works across public service, scientific research, technology strategy and publishing. The settings change, but the method remains consistent: understand the system, find the useful evidence and give complex work a clear direction.

His projects span artificial intelligence, medical research, energy storage, immersive technology, international innovation programmes and speculative fiction. These fields are connected by a curiosity about how emerging ideas reshape real lives.

Farabi with fellow delegates at the Public Sector Data and AI Forum

Public-purpose intelligence / 02

Turning evidence
into decisions.

Scientific and technological questions rarely sit within one organisation. This work connects evidence, policy, industry perspectives and delivery constraints so that complex subjects can be understood and acted on.

The emphasis is practical: frame the question clearly, bring the right people into the room and build a route from insight to delivery.

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A multidisciplinary Clinical Research and Innovation team at Plexal

Research leadership / 2017–2024

Research,
in motion.

At Imperial College London’s Clinical Research and Innovation programme, multidisciplinary student teams investigated emerging technologies in medical and regulated environments.

Across seven years, projects moved from virtual reality and neurological response to AI in public health, energy storage, computer vision and generative AI, always asking where technology could produce credible public value.

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Farabi at a UI and product design research session

Venture building / 03

Ideas need
structure.

As co-founder and chief executive of ImmVrse, Farabi shaped the proposition, coordinated an international team and communicated how AI, virtual reality and distributed systems could support an immersive-content marketplace.

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The M-BRIC energy-storage unit being positioned beside installation equipment
The installation team guiding the M-BRIC unit into position
Farabi assembling a component for the M-BRIC energy-storage system

Innovation delivery / 04

Systems made
real.

At Alp Technologies, research leadership became hands-on innovation delivery: grant systems, technical work packages, external partners and the practical installation of a new energy-storage system.

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Fields of work / 05

Move through
the practice.

Farabi speaking at the Public Sector Data and AI Forum
01Evidence, briefings and decisions across complex science and technology issues.
Farabi speaking with delegates at the Public Sector Data and AI Forum

Collaboration / 07

The work happens
between disciplines.

Progress depends on scientists, engineers, public servants, founders, students and creative teams being able to understand one another. Much of the practice is about creating those conditions and giving technical work a language people can use.

Build systems.
Tell stories.
Test futures.

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Selected evidence / 08

Direction measured
through delivery.

350+

science and technology cases delivered

7

years of Clinical Research & Innovation

4

in-year public-service awards

Selected trajectory / 09

A practice built
across contexts.

  1. Research and immersive systems

    Clinical Research & Innovation at Imperial College London and the founding of ImmVrse.

  2. Innovation systems and energy

    Research, grant governance and delivery leadership across neuromorphic computing and Alp Technologies.

  3. Public purpose and authorship

    Science and technology intelligence for government alongside publishing and The Sentience Codex.

Continue / 10

Research asks what is possible.
Story asks what it costs.

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