Panel

Kamelia Aryafar

AI and Engineering Executive, Netflix

Mehdi Bahrami

Senior Research Manager, Fujitsu Research of America

Dr. Mehdi Bahrami is a Senior Research Manager at Fujitsu Research of America, where he leads research on Agentic AI, LLM-based agents, and AI for software engineering. His recent work includes Kozuchi Agent, an open-weight agent framework for autonomous software engineering and repair. His broader research interests include generative AI, LLMs, and applied machine learning.

Dr. Bahrami has over 15 years of experience in software engineering and industrial AI research, with 30+ technical publications and 34+ granted U.S. patents. He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker and Senior Member of ACM and IEEE, and a recipient of the 2024 IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award for pioneering contributions to generative AI and API automation. His work has also been recognized with multiple industry awards and featured by leading technology media, including MIT Technology Review.

Shivam Patel

OpenAI

Maarten Van Segbroeck

Director of Research, NVIDIA

Maarten Van Segbroeck is director of research at NVIDIA, where he leads initiatives at the intersection of synthetic data, privacy, and trustworthy AI. His team develops methods and evaluation frameworks that enable organizations to safely generate, assess, and deploy high-quality synthetic datasets for advanced AI systems. Before joining NVIDIA, Maarten was VP of applied science at Gretel, helping enterprises adopt synthetic data solutions across regulated domains. He previously drove research efforts at Amazon across AWS and Alexa AI. Maarten holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from KU Leuven and completed postdoctoral research at the University of Southern California.