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Who we are
Zeta Alpha is an Amsterdam-based R&D and product lab with a passion for AI technology, located on the Science Park campus of the University of Amsterdam. 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.
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!


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
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.

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.

Gabriel Mayrink
Head of Business Development
Gabriel is a rare breed. He holds a PhD in AI and is passionate about strategy and business development. He is a natural networker and connector, and loves helping people where possible. Previous to Zeta Alpha, Gabriel was already an entrepreneur after leaving the comfortable life of big corporates like Shell and Philips. Rio de Janeiro—his hometown shapes his style, creativity and optimism.

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.

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.

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.
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. If you are interested in joining our ambitious mission, please send your CV.
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