Contributors
The reporters, editors, and practitioners who write and produce Data Phoenix — original reporting, analysis, and live shows on AI, machine learning, and data.
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News Editor
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.
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Dmytro SpodaretsFounder & Editor-in-Chief
Founder and Chief Editor of Data Phoenix — a San Francisco Bay Area media and education platform focused on AI and Data.
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Soham SharmaI am a dedicated Data Consultant, Marketing Professional, Web Developer, and a Project Manager, making strategic, data-driven decisions and providing clients with in-depth, interpretive data analyses.
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Maryna Marchuk - Sarah DeSouza
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Hemachandran KDr. 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.
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Jacob MarksMachine Learning Engineer
AI & ML @ Voxel51 | Editor @ AlphaSignal | Ex-Google X, Wolfram Research | Stanford PhD | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-marks
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Valeriia KukaContent Manager at DataTalks.Club
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Andrey CheptsovFounder & CEO
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Dr. Raul Villamarin RodriguezVice-President, Woxsen University.
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Caleb OkparaCaleb 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.
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Joe Scharf - Sandeep Saharan
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, AI Research Center, Department of Analytics, School of Business, Woxsen University, Hyderabad, India.
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Bikash Kumar PradhanAssistant Professor
Assistant Professor, AI Research Centre, Department of Analytics, School of Business, Woxsen University
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Manning PublicationsManning is a publisher of computer books, videos, and projects for software developers, engineers, architects, system administrators, managers, students, and people in adjacent professions.
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Dr. Basant AgarwalDr. 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.
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Samuele MazzantiSamuele 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.
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Santosh Kumar RadhaCo-Founder & CTO
Santosh Kumar Radha is Co-Founder and CTO of AgentField, an open-source infrastructure platform for running AI agents at scale. Previously, Santosh led product and engineering at Agnostiq, where he built Covalent, an open-source AI infrastructure platform for workflow orchestration that played a central role in Agnostiq's acquisition by DataRobot. His research focuses on LLM reasoning and agentic AI systems, scalable AI infrastructure, and AI governance and accountability. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics from Case Western Reserve University and a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
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Rome ThorstensonFounder
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.
