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Imagine ...

  • Personal analysts answer your data questions 24/7 within seconds.
  • Combining the creativity and storytelling of language models with the rigour of tabular machine learning.
  • Growing with you, learning about your business and interests.

Team

Portrait of Andreas Junghanns, Ph.D.

Co-Founder / CEO

Andreas Junghanns, Ph.D.

Andreas has a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and worked at Daimler Research. He co-founded QTronic which pioneered AI in test of embedded software. QTronic was acquired by Synopsys in 2019.

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Co-Founder / Principal Product Engineer

Dirk Petzoldt

Dirk is a principal data scientist with over 20 years of industry experience. In his executive roles he led more than 500 data analysts and software engineers at data driven companies like Zalando and Delivery Hero.

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Data Science Consultant

Fatemeh Khademi, Ph.D.

Fatemeh has 15 years of experience delivering end-to-end data-driven solutions across eight industries as demonstrated by 27 publications and 24 software frameworks. She has consulted many Fortune 500 clients and trained 180 young talents in machine learning.

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AI Platform Architect

Saravanan Aadalarasan Bhavani

Saravanan has over 10 years experience in Machine Learning. Having successfully deployed several ML models in production and previously built and led an AI team at a startup, he has a proven track record of driving AI deployment, innovation and technical leadership.

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AI Reliability Engineer

Ranjith Nandish, Ph.D.

Ranjith holds a PhD in Deep Learning and brings six years of hands-on machine learning experience. He strengthens backend engineering and production readiness as explai scales to enterprise customers.

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ML Forward Engineer

René Jestädt, Ph.D.

René is explai's first forward engineer, building reusable component libraries and domain-specific agent capabilities so partners can translate the platform into tailored, industry-specific solutions.

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Fullstack Engineer

Hossein Rashidi

Hossein builds rich, interactive analytics experiences—from dynamic visualizations and customizable enterprise frontends to how agents communicate reasoning and generate UIs across the full stack.