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Marilyn Matz
Marilyn Matz is the CEO and co-founder of Paradigm4, the Waltham, Massachusetts company behind SciDB, an array-native computational database built for the tangled, multi-dimensional data of genomics, clinical research, and imaging. She launched it in 2010 with database legend and Turing Award laureate Mike Stonebraker to move his MIT research into the hands of working scientists. Decades earlier she left MIT to co-found Cognex, now a global machine-vision powerhouse, where she ran worldwide engineering and later a business unit. A two-time technical founder who codes the deep infrastructure and still sells to the customer, Matz has spent a career making impossibly large scientific data explorable, reproducible, and fast.
Alexander Lavin
Alexander Lavin is an AI researcher and former rocket scientist who founded Pasteur Labs and the Institute for Simulation Intelligence (ISI) in New York. He is building what he calls 'the IDE for reality' - simulation engines fused with AI that let scientists and engineers run experiments in software before touching the physical world. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and lead author of the landmark 'Simulation Intelligence' paper, Lavin's path runs from lunar rovers and Blue Origin rocket structures through Numenta, Vicarious, and a probabilistic-medicine startup acquired by Johnson & Johnson, to a focused-research mission aimed at Nobel-Turing breakthroughs in energy, climate, and fusion.
Matthew Rocklin
Matthew Rocklin is the creator of Dask, the open-source library that lets ordinary Python scale across thousands of machines, and the co-founder and CEO of Coiled, a New York-based startup that turns that capability into a cloud product. A physicist-turned-computer-scientist, he spent years inside Anaconda and NVIDIA building the plumbing of the scientific Python world before raising venture money to make planetary-scale data processing feel as simple as importing a library. His software runs at NASA, Capital One, and the US Air Force; his blog reads like a field journal of open-source maintenance, startup life, and walking across Spain.