Anjali Parashar is a Research Intern with the Autonomous Vehicle Research Group at NVIDIA Research and a Ph.D. candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Chuchu Fan. Her research focuses on benchmarking autonomous systems through scenario design and evaluation, with an emphasis on assessing safety, and generalization in real-world environments. She previously earned her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and her B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, India.