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Dr Wasif Masood
Founder · Empirisch Tech
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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 30,000 downloads
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Shoaib Noor
Founder · Empirical Systems
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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
