Who we are
Zeta Alpha is an Amsterdam-based R&D and product lab with a passion for AI technology, with offices on the Science Park campus of the University of Amsterdam. and in San Francisco. With strong ties to the local and global research community, we are motivated by building beautiful and useful products based on the latest AI and natural language understanding technologies. We have the ambition to change how AI helps people to make better decisions in their work, and the drive to create a brand new product category to realize this ambition.
Amsterdam:
Zeta Alpha Vector B.V.
Office: LAB42 - Science Park 900
Mail: Science Park 608
1098 XH Amsterdam
The Netherlands
San Francisco:
Zeta Alpha USA
95 Third Street, 2nd Floor,
San Francisco, CA 94103
USA
Our mission
Zeta Alpha is building the next generation neural discovery platform. Our platform allows you to really find documents by meaning, stay up-to-date on essential information, and organize your knowledge discovery work. We make knowledge intensive teams more efficient and competitive, support decision-makers, and keep busy knowledge workers up to date with relevant information, insights, and connections. We combine our love of the field with our drive to build solutions. Drowning in information overload? AI to the rescue!
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Meet the crew
These are the people that make the magic happen
Jakub Zavrel
Founder & CEO
Founder, Technologist, Entrepreneur. Fell in love with AI some 30 years ago. Founder and former CEO of Textkernel. Building a new long lasting, prosperous, and global AI company with a very ambitious goal is what he loves to do. When he is not working or with family, you can find him listening to live music, enjoying a crafty cocktail, running, rowing, or tending to his rooftop garden.
Arthur Barbosa Câmara
Senior Research Engineer
With a Computer Science degree and startup engineering experience from Belo Horizonte, Arthur adds to our Brazilian section in the low countries. A PhD Candidate in the Lambda lab at Delft University, he is interested in (deep) IR, NLP and Search-as-Learning. He is into video games, rockets and food, plus he's a dedicated father to small multi-lingual language models at home as well as big ones in the lab.
Eduardo Ochoa
Senior Data Engineer
Eduardo is a former physics researcher turned Data Scientist and Data Engineer. He loves complex systems, but maybe even more to make complex things simple. Somehow more attached to Haarlem than to Amsterdam, he has also been bitten recently by the Zeta Alpha running craze, and has successfully completed the Dam tot Dam loop. Sometime he looks sentimental when Mexican food is discussed.
Rodrigo Nogueira
Scientific Advisor
Rodrigo aims to use machine learning to boost scientific discoveries. He holds a PhD. from NYU, where he worked at the intersection of Deep Learning, NLP, and IR. Besides his role as scientific advisor to Zeta Alpha, he is also a postdoc at the U of Waterloo, an adjunct professor at UNICAMP, and a senior research scientist at NeuralMind.
Arjen de Hoop
Business Development
Arjen is passionate about leveraging technology to create a meaningful impact, which he has done before in the solar energy industry. The only one on the team that was born and raised in Amsterdam, surprisingly, Arjen is a graduate from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Apart from in your email inbox, you might find Arjen on hikes, football fields, or padel courts.
Dinos Papakostas
Research Engineer
While knowledgeable about almost any aspect of AI R&D, which he demonstrates on a monthly basis as a regular host of the "Trends in AI" talk show, Dinos is mostly working on innovative neural approaches to improve the quality of Zeta Alpha's search engine, and to finetune the latest neural models for our customers. Dinos holds a Master's degree in AI from the University of Amsterdam and joined the team after doing his thesis internship at Zeta Alpha.
Artem Koziar
Frontend Engineer
Product-oriented Frontend engineer with a strong understanding of the history of designing and building scalable solutions. Effective translator of broader business goals into detailed requirements and implementations which solve real customer pain points. Always curious and a lifelong learner.
Fernando Rejon Barrera
CTO
Fernando spent some time in academia while completing his PhD in theoretical physics, and afterwards made a switch to industry in order to follow his lifelong passion for technology. He now focuses on software architecture of distributed systems, data engineering, MLOps, and cloud infrastructure.
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Pavlos Zakkas
AI Engineer
A graduate of Electrical and Computer engineering at the NTU Athens, Pavlos is working on multi-document sum- marries using LLMs at Zeta Alpha and for his Master's thesis in AI at Leiden University. Already an accomplished software engineer, he is also contributing to the core development of our neural discovery platform. In his spare time, Pavlos enjoys Crossfit, Music, and reading books on software engineering methodology.
Jakob Kaiser
Backend Engineer
While still studying for a MSc in AI at the University of Amsterdam, and serving as a core member of the Dutch Nao (robot football) team, Jakob is helping Zeta Alpha with backend Software Engineering in various parts of the platform. As long as it is vegan, he will devour any new topic of programming language.
Careers
We are looking to grow the team with talented and fun NLP researchers, data and software engineers (both front end and back end), as well as entrepreneurial sales and marketing leads. We are not actively recruiting right now. If you are interested in joining our ambitious mission at some point in the future, please send your CV.
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