FoundersIsmaeel is co-founder and CEO of Expanse. Built the first multimodal HPC resource predictor at EPCC (Edinburgh’s Parallel Computing Centre), beating every published baseline. Previously: ran large scale ML models at one of the world’s largest quantitative funds (QRT). Studied Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.
Nikodem is co-founder and CTO of Expanse. Trained and optimised speech recognition models on GPU clusters. Previously: managed the platforms researchers and engineers depended on at one of the world’s largest hedge funds (Millennium). Studied Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.
Yafet is co-founder and COO of Expanse. Built the first GNN-based cluster graph network for predicting SLURM queue wait times at EPCC (Edinburgh’s Parallel Computing Centre). Previously: tooling and infrastructure for researchers at one of the world’s largest quantitative funds (G-Research). Studied Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.
Eren is co-founder and CPO of Expanse. Built state-of-the-art decentralised foundation model training systems and performance models. Previously: prototyped emerging technologies in quantitative finance (G-Research). Studied Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh and Imperial College London.
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