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Elyas Masrour

Elyas Masrour

Founding Engineer

Elyas Masrour is a founding engineer at Pangram. Since joining Pangram as it's second employee straight out of the University of Maryland, he has built out critical infrastructure such as the model serving API, role-based access controls, and supporting evidence pipelines. Elyas also works closely with the research team on projects like adversarial robustness, model interpretability, and heterogenous mixed content detection. Outside of work, Elyas enjoys a wide range of human creativity and expression, including filmmaking, reading, and exploring the city.

Articles by Elyas Masrour

Does Pangram work on GPT-5.4?
Product Updates
Does Pangram work on GPT-5.4?
OpenAI just released a new flagship model: GPT-5. 4! We break down if Pangram can detect it.
Elyas Masrour
Elyas Masrour
Mar 6, 2026
Does Pangram detect Gemini 3?
News
Does Pangram detect Gemini 3?
Can Pangram detect the latest release from Google?
Elyas Masrour
Elyas Masrour
Nov 19, 2025
Can you avoid AI detection through editing?
Education
Can you avoid AI detection through editing?
How Pangram and other AI detectors handle attempts to edit or obfuscate AI-generated text.
Elyas Masrour
Elyas Masrour
Aug 29, 2025
Introducing Pangram’s Plagiarism Detection
Education
Introducing Pangram’s Plagiarism Detection
An overview of how Pangram's new Plagiarism Detection Features work.
Elyas Masrour
Elyas Masrour
Aug 1, 2025
Why does Pangram have a minimum word count?
News
Why does Pangram have a minimum word count?
You may have noticed recently that Pangram's AI detector has a minimum word count for a prediction of AI or human.
Elyas Masrour
Elyas Masrour
May 23, 2025
The Latest in AI Detection Research
News
The Latest in AI Detection Research
Pangram has been popping up in the research being published in the field of AI detection.
Elyas Masrour
Elyas Masrour
Mar 4, 2025
Can AI Detectors Catch GPT-4.5?
Product Updates
Can AI Detectors Catch GPT-4.5?
We put our AI detector to the test against today's released GPT-4. 5 model.
Elyas MasrourBradley Emi
Elyas Masrour and Bradley Emi
Feb 27, 2025
Walking Through AI’s Most Overused Phrases
Education
Walking Through AI’s Most Overused Phrases
As we discussed last week, AI tends to overuse certain words and phrases.
Elyas Masrour
Elyas Masrour
Feb 21, 2025
Introducing Pangram’s AI Phrases
Product Updates
Introducing Pangram’s AI Phrases
If you pay close enough attention, you can often find indicators in a text that suggest it was written by AI.
Elyas Masrour
Elyas Masrour
Feb 14, 2025
What is a humanizer?
Product Updates
What is a humanizer?
Last week, we announced that Pangram is now able to detect AI humanizers.
Elyas Masrour
Elyas Masrour
Jan 27, 2025
Pangram can now detect AI humanizers
Product Updates
Pangram can now detect AI humanizers
We're excited to announce that today we have shipped a model that can detect over 90% of high-quality humanized content.
Elyas Masrour
Elyas Masrour
Jan 23, 2025