Transforming Complexity into Advantage with AI
We create AI-powered Cognitive Digital Twins that deliver comprehensive oversight, predictive analysis, strategic insight, and real-time optimization of complex systems.
About us
Our origin story
Senira provides explainable, ethical, and exceptional AI solutions to the Financial Services industry. With over 25 years of AI experience at Slovenia’s Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI), our team of software engineers and data scientists are pioneers in Cognitive Digital Twin technology and renowned thought-leaders in responsible AI development, governance, and application.
Under the leadership of Dr. Marko Grobelnik and Dr. Mitja Germol, JSI is the home of UNESCO’s International Research Center on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI) and the technical partner of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Dr. Grobelnik also serves as the Deputy Chair of NATO’s Data and AI Review Board.
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Our de-risked technology has been deployed successfully in 35 projects, from solving complex financial challenges to optimizing smart factories, including for industry leaders such as Bloomberg, The New York Times, British Telecom, and Airbus.
As a research fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in the mid-1990s, Co-Founder and CTO Dr. Marko Grobelnik co-created the foundational algorithm powering our technology. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Grobelnik and a small team of JSI researchers enhanced the original algorithm, infusing it with accelerated machine learning capabilities and developing an ecosystem of proprietary, interoperable solutions.
Co-Founder and CEO Michael Hougaard, a former U.S. diplomat and successful entrepreneur, partnered with Dr. Grobelnik in founding Senira in 2023 to further develop the technology for commercial applications.
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Our business and product leaders are accomplished international professionals with decades of experience solving complex problems. Leveraging their diverse, interdisciplinary skillsets and global networks, they are passionate about commercializing the technology and adding value to the Financial Services sector in Europe and the United States.