Co-founder & Principal
Dr. Alain Biem
Enterprise AI strategy, leadership, and implementation
Alain brings enterprise AI leadership, scientific research, and academic teaching to the decisions that connect AI investment with organizational capability.
His experience includes Chief AI Officer at New York Life and Chief AI Scientist and Head of AI at S&P Global Market Intelligence, alongside earlier leadership roles at Wayfair and Opera Solutions and research at IBM.
He has built AI organizations across North America, Europe, and Asia, connecting research, data platforms, engineering, products, and commercial teams. His perspective addresses both the technical foundations and the operating conditions required to create value.
Alain holds a PhD in machine learning and AI and teaches at Columbia University. His work spans enterprise strategy, decision intelligence, and the translation of research into production systems.
International experience
Research and leadership roles in France, Japan, and the United States; AI organizations built across North America, Europe, and Asia. Works in English, French, and Japanese.
Speaking
Moderator at Ai4 2026 and Ai4 2025; keynote at the Chief AI Officer Summit, New York, 2025; panelist at the Super AI/ML Summit, New York.
Areas of expertise
- Enterprise AI strategy and governance
- AI operating models and investment portfolios
- Research-to-production and digital products
- Executive education and decision intelligence
Selected publications
Peer-reviewed work authored or co-authored by Dr. Alain Biem, with venues and publisher records.
2022
Growing cumulative activity of major tropical cyclones: Detection, attribution, and projections (opens the publisher’s record in a new tab)
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 108, 106202 · DOI 10.1016/j.cnsns.2021.106202
2021
Time-resolved topological data analysis of market instabilities (opens the publisher’s record in a new tab)
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 571, 125816 · DOI 10.1016/j.physa.2021.125816
Research summary2014
Detecting road traffic events by coupling multiple timeseries with a nonparametric Bayesian method (opens the publisher’s record in a new tab)
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 15(5), 1936–1946 · DOI 10.1109/TITS.2014.2305334
2010
IBM InfoSphere Streams for scalable, real-time, intelligent transportation services (opens the publisher’s record in a new tab)
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 1093–1104 · DOI 10.1145/1807167.1807291
Research summary2010
Real-time prognosis of ICU physiological data streams (opens the publisher’s record in a new tab)
2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 6785–6788 · DOI 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5625983
2009
Semisupervised least squares support vector machine (opens the publisher’s record in a new tab)
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 20(12), 1858–1870 · DOI 10.1109/TNN.2009.2031143
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