Ople, the platform that applies artificial intelligence to data science and machine learning, has hired Gilberto Titericz, one of the world’s leading data scientists, to head the company’s advanced data science research team. “This is a big deal in the data science world,” explains Pedro Alves, CEO, himself a highly accomplished data scientist. “We are a fast-growing startup, but still a startup. That a data scientist of Gilberto’s caliber would want leave Airbnb to join our team, shows how powerful our technology is.”