Dr Wasif Masood
Founder · Empirisch Tech
Owns
Direction. Which bets the lab takes, which of them become products, and the standard
of evidence a result has to clear before we put our name on it.
Wasif has spent his career starting things. He founded Empirisch Tech as a lab rather than an agency, betting that a small team publishing its work in the open would earn more trust than a large one selling access to a black box. So far it has produced three platforms, Chaperone AI for language, Numerical AI for physics, and Simvera for vision. Each one is run as its own product with its own customers. He is still on every technical call, and he still signs off each evaluation before it ships.
- Named Cloudera Data Hero for work in industrial data science, alongside several technical and mentorship talks
- Open 16 open-weight models on Hugging Face, past 30,000 downloads
