AESTHETIC INTEGRATION - Key Persons


Andrey Pashnin

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Andrey is a self-taught software engineer with a master's degree in radio engineering who, for an unknown reason, cannot stop learning new languages, both programming (from C++ and VHDL to JavaScript and OCaml) and spoken (from French to Chinese). He worked at a Samsung Electronics Research Center and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Ben Bellick

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  • Software Engineer
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Ben is a functional software engineer who started his career working as a quantitative developer in the financial industry. With a background studying mathematics in undergrad, he has been driven by his passion for strongly-typed functional programming languages and their relation to mathematics. He's a contributor to the Haskell compiler. After leaving his last job, he spent nearly 6 months traveling the world. In the rest of his free time, he likes studying math and Japanese, and making music with Eurorack.

Christoph Wintersteiger

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  • Computer Scientist
  • Senior Computer Scientist
Christoph is a computer scientist with many years of experience in industrial as well as academic research. His main interests lie in and around the areas of software verification, decision procedures, and automated reasoning. He holds a PhD degree from ETH Zurich (CH) and a Master's from the University of Linz (AT). On his days off, he can often be found wrenching on classic cars.

Dave Aitken

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  • R & D Engineer With a Master of Physics
  • VP of Engineering
Dave is an R&D engineer with a Master of Physics degree (MPhys) from the University of Oxford. He has over a decade's experience with the full web stack, cloud infrastructure and operations.

Denis Ignatovich

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  • Cofounder & Co - CEO
Denis Ignatovich has over a decade of experience in trading, risk management, quantitative modeling, and complex trading system design. Prior to joining AI, he was head of the central risk trading desk at Deutsche Bank London. He holds an MSc in Finance from the London School of Economics and degrees in CS and Finance from UT Austin.

Elijah Kagan

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  • Head of Design
Elijah is a designer with almost three decades of freelance and agency experience. He has worked for various businesses and institutions, including Honda, Volvo, Iron Mountain, Nokia Siemens Networks, LG, McCain, and Toptal. In addition to being also a creative developer and musician, he holds a Master's in Marketing and Computer Science from the Wroclaw University of Economics.

Emma Tye

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  • Software Engineer
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Emma Tye is a software engineer with an interest in functional programming, type systems and mathematical logic. She graduated from Imperial College London a few years ago with an MEng in Joint Maths and Computer Science.

Ewen Maclean

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  • VP of Language Technology
Ewen is a mathematician turned computer scientist specialising in the automation of formal proof. He obtained his PhD from Edinburgh University and has subsequently worked as a lecturer and researcher in Brazil, Spain and Edinburgh, also contributing to industrial case studies in static analysis and program verification.

Filippo Sestini

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Filippo is a Functional Software Engineer with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Nottingham. During his PhD, he focused on dependent type theory and proof assistants. He also conducted research on linear logic, proof theory, and lambda calculus. Passionate about strongly typed functional programming and formal methods, he is interested in applying these tools to real-world industrial projects.

Grant Passmore

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  • Cofounder & Co - CEO
Grant Passmore has more than ten years' industrial formal verification experience. He has been a key contributor to safety verification of algorithms at Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon, Edinburgh, Microsoft Research, and SRI. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

Hongyu Lin

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  • Learning Engineer
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Hongyu is a machine learning engineer with a keen interest in leveraging deep learning to unravel complex patterns in financial time series. Skilled in Python for data analysis, he is dedicated to transforming financial data into actionable insights. Hongyu earned his bachelor's degree with a focus on financial mathematics from Central University of Finance and Economics and completed a MSc in the same field at the University of Leeds.

Jamie Smith

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Jamie Smith has more than twenty-five years of embedded design and test & measurement experience in safety-critical industries. He spent most of his career at National Instruments (now NI). Jamie earned a Master of Science in Applied Physics from Stanford and a Bachelor's in Physics from UC Santa Barbara. He is a frequent speaker at Autonomous Vehicle and Industrial Internet of Things conferences.

John Hester

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Kostya Kanishev

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Matt Bray - CTO

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  • Chief Technology Officer
Matt is a full-stack R&D Engineer, with several years' experience in cloud infrastructure and systems design. He holds a Master of Physics degree (MPhys) from the University of Oxford, a PGCert in Intellectual Property Law, and qualified as a European Patent Attorney.

Nicola Mometto

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  • Principal R & D Engineer
Nicola is a software developer with interests in functional programming, languages and compiler design. He's the creator and maintainer of several clojure contrib libraries and compilers and a frequent contributor to the Clojure compiler.

Paul Brennan - Chief Strategy Officer

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  • Chief Strategy Officer
Paul Brennan has over 15 years' experience in product, strategy and management of complex businesses within Financial Markets. Prior to joining Imandra, Paul was the Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs' regulated trading venue. He holds an MSc in Applied and Theoretical Fluid Dynamics and a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Manchester.

Remi Desmartin

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  • Research Fellow
Remi is a PhD student at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, whose main research interest is the formal verification of neural networks. He previously completed an MSc in Data Science, where his dissertation focused on the application of Imandra to neural network verification. He is interested in various aspects of artificial intelligence, from the maths behind different types of AI systems to the ethical questions it poses and its exploration in works of science fiction.

Sam Tombury

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer
  • Senior Product Engineer
Sam is a software engineer with extensive experience developing technical products for high-growth startups in London. Having studied Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, he is interested in the application of formal methods to complex systems in industry.

Samer Abdallah

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  • Software Engineer
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Samer is a software engineer with a background in music informatics, Bayesian modelling, machine learning and information theory. He gained his PhD from King's College London and worked as a researcher at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London. He has a long-standing interest in functional and logic programming, making several contributions to the SWI Prolog ecosystem, and likes to explore how these methods intersect both with music technology, for example, in reactive programming for interactive music systems, and with probabilistic models and machine learning, for example, in probabilistic programming languages.

Simon Cruanes

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  • R & D Engineer
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Simon is an R&D engineer with an engineering degree from École polytechnique in France, a masters degree from EPFL, and a PhD in automatic theorem proving. He's worked on first-order and higher-order proving and model finding, with a focus on implementation, having written several tools in various domains of formal logic. He also is an active contributor to the OCaml community.

Stephanie Radics

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  • Imandra 's Operations Manager
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As Imandra's Operations Manager, Stephanie oversees team logistics and finances, employee relations and general operations in order to cultivate productivity and help the company to achieve their goals. She joined Imandra after obtaining a wealth of operations experience in the hospitality and property management sectors. Stephanie earned a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration from Central Michigan University.