Dr. Andre Loose
Andre studied experimental physics, computer science, and aviation in Berlin and Rio de Janeiro. After his PhD, he moved to New York to work at the Columbia Astrophysics Lab as Research Scientist on a dark matter search experiment. Most recently he helped build NewsArc, an agentic, AI-powered news application that surfaces high-quality journalism, challenging the attention-economy model of modern news consumption. He creates adaptable tools that enhance human intelligence and bridges the gap between research and business environments.
Zav Shotan, PhD
Zav is an experimental physicist with over a decade of software engineering experience. During his PhD he founded a tech company focused on statistical solutions using Monte Carlo simulations. He moved to NYC to work as a Postdoc on microscopy, light-matter interaction, and quantum computing, then transitioned into industry at a prominent data startup where he built and streamlined their data pipeline. He is fluent in Kubernetes, Airflow, CI/CD, GCP, and Docker.
Orian Sharoni
Orian specializes in the intersection of academic research and end-to-end ML development. Her background in computational cognition, where she researched and mathematically modeled human behavior, grounds her understanding of both human thought and machine reasoning. She applies this to expand the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.
Roee Shenberg
Roee worked for Facebook AI Research on real time music style transfer, founded a Y-Combinator backed startup in gesture control, and prototyped software for what became the Microsoft Kinect at PrimeSense. Over the years he’s come to realize that in order to blur the lines between humans and technology, you need to know computers well and humans better.