Jason Cohen is the Founder & CEO of Simulacra Synthetic Data Studio, a synthetic data generation platform for consumer behavioral research. He was previously the Founder & CEO at Gastrograph AI, an AI platform for modeling and predicting human sensory perception and consumer preference. Jason's background and expertise is in sensory science, tea tasting, and topological data analysis for machine learning.
Before founding Simulacra Data and Gastrograph AI, Jason was the Founder and Executive Director of The Tea Institute at Penn State, an interdisciplinary tea research institute, which oversaw 20+ researchers in 5 fields of study on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean tea.
Forget endless tinkering and trial-and-error! AI is poised to revolutionize the world of flavor innovation, putting the combined expertise of a thousand data analysts in your pocket. Backed by 1.5 billion flavor profiles across 38 markets in the globe, Gastrograph AI is able to analyze taste profiles, ingredient combinations, and cultural trends at a pace beyond imagination to suggest flavor pairings you never thought possible and predict the next breakout hit - push the boundaries of what's considered "delicious".
Imagine you are savouring a piece of delicious, nutritious meat, but it has come from a laboratory "petri dish". Food tech is transforming unattainable science fiction concepts into table fare. How do we realise the commercial potential of new technologies and take them from the lab to the table of millions of families?