An applied-AI lab, not a slide deck
SiliconBlast closes the gap between AI research and AI you deploy and trust. We prove this by shipping our own products. We bring the same standard to your work.
Our mission
We turn new AI research into reliable systems with real value. We build with rigor, security, and accountability for organizations where errors are costly.
Our vision
We want to be the applied-AI partner enterprises and governments trust to ship. We set the standard for AI work in the lab and in production.
Named, accountable expertise
Serious AI work needs accountable people. You know who owns your delivery.
Ekaba Bisong
Founder & Principal AI Engineer · Calgary, Canada
Ekaba founded SiliconBlast and designs its products. He holds Google Professional certifications in Machine Learning Engineering and Data Engineering, a Microsoft Azure AI Engineer certification, and wrote the Apress textbook on building machine learning systems on Google Cloud. His peer-reviewed research in machine learning and reinforcement learning has thousands of citations.
Across more than a decade he has built and delivered AI and data systems for Fortune 500 enterprises, banks, and public-sector organizations in finance, healthcare, mining, telecom, retail, and energy. Today he designs and ships SiliconBlast's own production AI products end-to-end. He is pursuing a Doctor of Science in Computer Science in reinforcement learning.
Education
- Doctor of Science in Computer Science, University of Victoria (in progress)
- M.Sc. Computer Science, Carleton University
- B.Sc. Computer Science, Babcock University
Certifications
- Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer
- Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer
- Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate
- Cloudera Data Platform Certified Generalist
Author of “Building Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models on Google Cloud Platform” (Apress / Springer Nature)
What we stand for
Ship, not slideware
We measure our work by systems in production. Our proof is the software we run ourselves.
Rigor over hype
We tell you when AI is the wrong tool. We back every claim with evaluation.
Security and accountability
You get named, accountable delivery and security-by-design. Enterprise and government work demands both.
Frontier, applied
We track new research. We turn research into reliable, low-cost systems for the real world.