We are VALIDAITOR – a spin off from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). We develop tools and platform to ensure quality in Artificial Intelligence. Our platform offers comprehensive testing and validation capabilities for machine learning models. With our platform, companies enjoy fast iteration while keeping in the realm of the AI regulations. Our unique out-of-the box testing and continuous compliance approach enable companies to automate their machine learning quality assurance and get certified continuously. We’re partnering up with companies to evaluate their AI systems as external auditors. Our services provide insights regarding the quality of your AI systems and enable you to adopt a comprehensive AI risk and quality management framework. Resting upon the academic perfection of KIT, Validaitor helps in adoption of trustworthy and responsible AI best practices.
The Team
Yunus Bulut
CTO & Managing Partner
Yunus is an AI researcher, practitioner and serial tech founder. He founded two successful data science companies so far and now it’s time for him to make AI trustworthy and responsible by testing, cracking and repairing them at Validaitor.
Jonas Tischer
Senior Software Engineer
Jonas loves to explore Cloud, Data, and AI Solutions. While working at ThoughtWorks, he helped many companies leverage AI to create exciting software applications. He became interested in AI safety after realizing the potential dangers associated with unregulated AI and is passionate about promoting ethical and responsible AI development best practices.
Aman Kumar
Software Engineer
Aman is a software development and machine learning expert. After his graduation from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), he started to develop AI systems to solve business problems. Now he’s busy with automating AI quality and risk assessment at Validaitor.
Michael Graf
Senior Software Engineer
Michael is a passionate software developer and researcher who loves to explore new technologies. His previous research was in privacy preserving distributed analytics for biomedical data where safety was paramount. He will now move from safely creating models to ensuring their safety at Validaitor.
Semih Ucan
Software Engineer
Semih is a computer scientist and an enthusiastic software developer. Besides developing Validaitor platform, he also conducts research on cyber security and AI. He’s also pursuing his masters degree at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
Rafael Rego Drumond
Senior Machine Learning Scientist
Rafael is Machine Learning researcher who loves to tinker with all sorts of technologies. During his studies at the university of Hildesheim, Rafael contributed with extensive research in the field of Meta-Learning and Few-Shot Learning. Being around artists made him interested in ethical Machine Learning and the regulation of AI technologies in order to promote a fair and responsible employment of ML models.
Akshat Gupta
Machine Learning Engineer
Akshat is an enthusiastic Machine Learning engineer, 3x-Kaggle Expert (Top 0.1%) and Intel Innovator. His day to day job is hacking AI systems and assessing their quality.
Felix Möller
Machine Learning Engineer
Felix is a Karlsruhe Institute of Technology graduate and enjoys hacking machine learning models. He’s pursuing his masters degree at ETH Zurich.
Advisors
Prof. Dr. Michael Beigl
Academic Advisor
Michael is professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and holds the chair position for Pervasive Computing Systems. He is also the head of the TECO research group.
Dr. Till Riedel
Academic Advisor
Till is the lab leader at TECO within the Chair for Pervasive Computing Systems of Michael Beigl and lecturer at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Dr. Kerim Galal
Business Advisor
Kerim is the ex-CEO of DEKRA Digital and currently the Head of Corporate Development (Strategy, M&A, Inhouse-Consulting) at Trumpf.