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The contributors and organisations who appear across Data Phoenix — staff editors, guest speakers from labs and product teams, and the companies behind the events, episodes, and research we cover.
Assistant Professor, AI Research Centre, Department of Analytics, School of Business, Woxsen University
Caleb is a software engineer and founder of Murnitur, specializing in AI safety and observability. He's behind Murnitur Shield, a cutting-edge tool for data protection and compliance.
Founder and Chief Editor of Data Phoenix — a San Francisco Bay Area media and education platform focused on AI and Data.
Dr. Basant Agarwal works as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Kota. Basant has 10+ years of experience in academia and research.
Vice-President, Woxsen University.
Ellie Ramirez-Camara is the News Editor at Data Phoenix, where she writes the daily AI newsdesk — covering model releases, research, funding rounds, and policy across the AI and machine-learning industry. She tracks announcements from labs and startups alike and distills them into clear, source-linked reporting for practitioners.
Fabrizio Dimino is an AI Research Scientist at Domyn specializing in trustworthy AI for financial services, with experience building agentic systems and predictive ML models. Published research at ICAIF, NeurIPS GenAI in Finance, ICLR FinAI, IEEE ICDM on knowledge graphs, AI governance, red-teaming, and reinforcement learning. His recent research investigates how biases emerge in large language models and how these systems can be made more reliable for high-stakes financial applications.
Dr. Hemachandran Kannan is the Director of the AI Research Centre and Area Chair - Analytics at Woxsen University. He is an expert in NLP, OpenCV, recommendation systems, and Chatbots.
AI & ML @ Voxel51 | Editor @ AlphaSignal | Ex-Google X, Wolfram Research | Stanford PhD | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-marks
Manning is a publisher of computer books, videos, and projects for software developers, engineers, architects, system administrators, managers, students, and people in adjacent professions.
Rome Thorstenson is the founder of Rafter, which is building the security layer for AI-generated software. Rafter brings security into the coding agent’s own feedback loop, helping builders detect and fix vulnerabilities from planning to production to ship secure by design. He started Rafter after watching a friend ship a vibe-coded application to real users with serious security gaps that neither the builder nor the AI had caught. Rafter's vision is simple: anyone should be able to turn an idea into working software, without choosing between speed and security. A Yale graduate and AI researcher, Rome has spent more than a decade building software. At Rafter, he's working to make security a native part of AI-assisted development — not another specialized process builders have to bolt on after the code is already written.
Samuele Mazzanti works as a Lead Data Scientist at Jakala, an IT consulting firm. He is also a data science communicator, writing to 3.5k followers on Medium. He lives and works in Rome, Italy.