Exanta

Exanta P.C. is a data science company that provides solutions and tools powered by eXplainable AI (XAI) and data science technologies. It was established as a spin-off from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki by a team of data scientists and innovators with backgrounds in both academia and industry. The founding team includes Professor Athena Vakali, who serves as the scientific advisor, and co-founders Ilias Dimitriadis and Pavlos Sermpezis. The company's mission is to translate cutting-edge research in AI and data analytics into practical, high-performance business solutions.

Exanta offers a range of services designed to transform raw data into valuable business insights. These services include developing AI pipelines for anomaly detection, such as identifying power theft, and providing solutions for trustworthy and bias-free data analytics. The company also specializes in creating AI systems with a human-in-the-loop, allowing for human supervision and feedback. Additionally, Exanta develops social media crowdsourcing tools that use machine learning for content analysis and bot detection, alongside creating effective data visualizations.

The company has developed a suite of proprietary tools to address various business needs. These tools include an AI Act Applicability Scanner to ensure readiness for EU regulations, a BiasFramework for uncovering data bias, and HarmWatch for tracking AI harm incidents. For the energy sector, Exanta has created tools like EcoGazer for tenant energy analytics and PatentInno for analyzing patent data. They also offer solutions for political discourse analysis, capable of processing multi-modal and multi-language data to extract insights on topics, sentiment, and polarization.

Keywords: explainable AI, data science, anomaly detection, bias-free analytics, data visualization, machine learning, AI regulation, human-in-the-loop, political discourse analysis, energy analytics