Meet the Experts Behind the Intelligence

Who we are 

Extraordinary Minds.
One Shared Vision.

Our team brings together world-class talent from top global institutions and industry leaders — including CERN, Microsoft, Amazon, QuantumBlack, McKinsey, BCG, and Bain. With academic roots in Stanford, MIT, Oxford, and more, we blend deep expertise across physics, engineering, mathematics, statistics, operations research, computer science, chemistry, economics, biology, and design.
Team
Backgrounds
Nina Petrovic
Lead NLP Engineer
An expert in large language models and conversational AI, Nina builds intelligent systems that understand, generate, and act on human language — from custom chatbots to internal knowledge agents. To her, language is the interface of intelligence.
An expert in large language models and conversational AI, Nina builds intelligent systems that understand, generate, and act on human language — from custom chatbots to internal knowledge agents. To her, language is the interface of intelligence.
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Owen Hartmann
Head of AI Ethics & Safety
Owen brings a principled approach to AI development. He works across teams to ensure our technologies are fair, explainable, and aligned with ethical best practices in both public and enterprise domains. He builds trust into every line of code.
Owen brings a principled approach to AI development. He works across teams to ensure our technologies are fair, explainable, and aligned with ethical best practices in both public and enterprise domains. He builds trust into every line of code. Owen brings a principled approach to AI development. He works across teams to ensure our technologies are fair, explainable, and aligned with ethical best practices in both public and enterprise domains. He builds trust into every line of code.
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Ananya Rao
Senior UX Researcher
Ananya specializes in human-centered AI design. She ensures that Epic Labs' products are intuitive, accessible, and aligned with user behavior — blending design research with machine intelligence. She speaks the language of both users and machines.
Ananya specializes in human-centered AI design. She ensures that Epic Labs' products are intuitive, accessible, and aligned with user behavior — blending design research with machine intelligence. She speaks the language of both users and machines. Ananya specializes in human-centered AI design. She ensures that Epic Labs' products are intuitive, accessible, and aligned with user behavior — blending design research with machine intelligence. She speaks the language of both users and machines.
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Carlos Mendes
VP of Engineering
Carlos leads our full-stack engineering and AI deployment teams. With years of experience scaling intelligent platforms, he ensures seamless integration between data pipelines, AI engines, and front-end systems. For him, engineering is where AI meets precision.
Carlos leads our full-stack engineering and AI deployment teams. With years of experience scaling intelligent platforms, he ensures seamless integration between data pipelines, AI engines, and front-end systems. For him, engineering is where AI meets precision. Carlos leads our full-stack engineering and AI deployment teams. With years of experience scaling intelligent platforms, he ensures seamless integration between data pipelines, AI engines, and front-end systems. For him, engineering is where AI meets precision.
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Leila Ahmed
Director of Operations Research
With expertise in optimization, systems modeling, and decision science, Leila leads initiatives that improve supply chains, logistics, and planning. Her models help businesses scale with intelligence and efficiency. She brings order to complexity through mathematics.
With expertise in optimization, systems modeling, and decision science, Leila leads initiatives that improve supply chains, logistics, and planning. Her models help businesses scale with intelligence and efficiency. She brings order to complexity through mathematics. With expertise in optimization, systems modeling, and decision science, Leila leads initiatives that improve supply chains, logistics, and planning. Her models help businesses scale with intelligence and efficiency. She brings order to complexity through mathematics.
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Maxim Volkov
Lead Data Scientist
Maxim specializes in predictive modeling, time-series forecasting, and experimentation pipelines. He brings precision and depth to our data science work, helping clients turn raw data into measurable impact.To him, patterns don’t hide — they speak.
Maxim specializes in predictive modeling, time-series forecasting, and experimentation pipelines. He brings precision and depth to our data science work, helping clients turn raw data into measurable impact.To him, patterns don’t hide — they speak. Maxim specializes in predictive modeling, time-series forecasting, and experimentation pipelines. He brings precision and depth to our data science work, helping clients turn raw data into measurable impact.To him, patterns don’t hide — they speak.
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Sophia Lin
Head of Product & Strategy
Sophia blends business strategy with deep tech understanding to align AI capabilities with real-world needs. She defines product direction, guides go-to-market efforts, and ensures innovation is grounded in user value. She believes good strategy is where vision meets data.

Sophia blends business strategy with deep tech understanding to align AI capabilities with real-world needs. She defines product direction, guides go-to-market efforts, and ensures innovation is grounded in user value. She believes good strategy is where vision meets data. Sophia blends business strategy with deep tech understanding to align AI capabilities with real-world needs. She defines product direction, guides go-to-market efforts, and ensures innovation is grounded in user value. She believes good strategy is where vision meets data.

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Dr. Arjun Mehra
Chief AI Architect
With a background in machine learning and distributed systems, Arjun leads the design of Epic Labs’ core AI frameworks and agent architectures. He ensures our solutions are not only scalable and secure but also future-ready for enterprise deployment.
With a background in machine learning and distributed systems, Arjun leads the design of Epic Labs’ core AI frameworks and agent architectures. He ensures our solutions are not only scalable and secure but also future-ready for enterprise deployment. With a background in machine learning and distributed systems, Arjun leads the design of Epic Labs’ core AI frameworks and agent architectures. He ensures our solutions are not only scalable and secure but also future-ready for enterprise deployment.
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