Team

Founders

Dr Wasif Masood founded Empirisch Tech. Shoaib Noor founded Empirical Systems. Empirisch Tech GmbH holds a participating interest in Empirical Systems.

Founders

VenturesFounder

Dr Wasif Masood

Founder · Empirisch Tech
Does Research direction, product decisions, and the evaluation before a model is published.

Founder and managing director of Empirisch Tech. He started the company as a research lab that publishes its work. The lab now runs three platforms: Chaperone AI for language, Numerical AI for physics, and Simvera for vision. Each is a separate product with its own customers. He reviews evaluations before they are published.

  • 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 35,000 downloads
  • Papers WACV 2027 on synthetic-to-real detection, and two NeurIPS 2026 workshop papers on PDE foundation models and configuration repair. See the papers
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PlatformFounder

Shoaib Noor

Founder · Empirical Systems
Does Platform architecture, HPC clusters and pipelines, and the security setup for on-premises and air-gapped installs.

Founder of Empirical Systems and co-founder of Numerical AI. Cloud and high-performance computing specialist, with twenty years of enterprise database and infrastructure work in manufacturing, financial technology, telecoms, and consumer businesses. At Numerical AI he turned open parallel solvers into a platform that engineering teams can run.

  • Named Several best achiever awards, alongside a range of professional certifications
  • Cloud Hyperscale Kubernetes on Amazon EKS, from a single node to thousands of cores, secured and managed as code
  • Papers Two NeurIPS 2026 workshop papers, on PDE foundation models and configuration repair. See the papers
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Advisors

Five external advisors. They are not employees.

Advisor 01

Awais Masood

Legal, finance, and business development

Experienced CFO | Non-Executive Director | Expertise in Financial Planning

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Advisor 02

Lasse Guzek

Business Development & sales

Automation | Requirement Analysis | Business Analysis

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Advisor 03

Dr Aamer Shah AWS

Senior Advisor HPC Scaling

HPC Engineer | Performance Tuning | Computational Scientist

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Advisor 04

Dr Raheeb Muzaffar

Senior Advisor R&D

Industry & IoT 5.0 | Wireless Communication | Applied Research

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Advisor 05

Aamer Javaid

Senior Advisor on Business Development

Technology & Innovation | Strategic Management

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Contact

A technical call is with Dr Wasif Masood or Shoaib.

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