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TwoSetAI Workshop Series

Workshop Instructors

The engineers, founders, and researchers who teach the TwoSetAI Workshop series. Each session pairs a working build with the person who built it.

Nicole Königstein

Nicole Königstein

Creator of AgensFlow · O’Reilly Author · PhD Researcher

O’Reilly author of AI Agents: The Definitive Guide and Transformers: The Definitive Guide, with a third book on Harness Engineering in progress. Advises the European Commission and IOSCO on generative AI in regulated environments. Oxford lecturer. PhD researcher on self-improving multi-agent systems.

Ahmet İlten

Ahmet İlten

Founding Engineer · Sentience

Founding engineer at The Sentience Company, where he leads agent architecture and quality. Sentience is a New York-based AI startup building a personal AI model, backed by Bain Capital Ventures and South Park Commons.

Benjamin Carsley

Benjamin Carsley

Founding Engineer · Sentience

Founding engineer at The Sentience Company focused on personalized voice, tone, and style. Studied linguistics at Columbia and has worked across data engineering, machine learning pipelines, and speech AI, most recently at BoldVoice.

Skanda Vaidyanath

Skanda Vaidyanath

Founding AI Researcher · Yutori

Founding AI researcher at Yutori, focused on reinforcement learning for LLM post-training on long-horizon tasks. Contributed to Navigator n2, Yutori’s 27B parameter computer-use model at the cost-performance frontier. Published at NeurIPS 2022 (LISA: Learning Interpretable Skill Abstractions). Previously: MS in Computer Science (AI) at Stanford.

Sadaf Ayub

Sadaf Ayub

Founder, Ayub Consulting · Fractional Ops & Finance Partner

She's spent 15 years advising senior leaders, including at Google, Meta, and AI startups. The operational adult technical founders bring in when they want big-tech rigor without big-tech headcount. Her work centers on AI-augmented operations for AI-native startups.

Joseph Enochs

Joseph Enochs

O'Reilly Author · Chief AI Officer, EVT

Author of the O'Reilly book Video Generation with AI and Chief AI Officer at EVT, where he has led production AI deployments (RAG, agents, governance) for Fortune 500 enterprises for over a decade. Columbia master's in ML. Also writes for IT Revolution's Countdown to AGI series.

See the full workshop lineup on the Workshop Series page.