About us
Founded in 2018, Otzma Analytics is a boutique consultancy powered by over twenty-five years of experience in the Data Science, Machine Learning and Analytics professions. We specialise in helping companies get the most out of their data, as well as in analytics auditing: providing an external review of your analytics algorithms to find their weaknesses and hidden assumptions that are preventing you from fully materialising the power of your data.
Our Services
Analytics consulting
Analytics training
Analytics auditing
Our credo
At Otzma Analytics, we believe that every problem is unique, that your data is unlike anyone else's. We believe in learning, in coming to each problem with a child-like curiosity, ready to be surprised by it. We learn the subtleties of your data and your data environment, and tailor a solution that makes best use of your specific goals and circumstances. And much like every problem is different, so must solutions be: there is no one size that fits all and no one algorithm above all others. Anyone can plot a correlation line, but to really bring business value requires a deep understanding and a rich toolkit to leverage it. Go beyond off-the-shelf solutions and harness the power of tailored analytics. Go beyond traditional predictive analytics and reap the benefits of causal modelling. You care about your data. So do we.Michael Brand, founder
Who we are
Michael Brand
FounderWith over 25 years of cutting-edge, international industry experience in advanced analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, machine vision and natural language processing, Dr. Brand’s data expertise is both uniquely wide and uniquely deep. He served as Chief Data Scientist at Telstra Corporation, as Senior Principal Data Scientist at Pivotal, as Chief Scientist at Verint Systems, as CTO Group Algorithm Leader at PrimeSense Ltd (in the machine-vision team that developed the XBox Kinect), and as Director of the Monash Centre for Data Science in his role as Associate Professor of Data Science at Monash University. He has developed solutions at every scale from on-chip to Big Data, from real-time to high-powered computing, and made industry-defining contributions that have earned him 16 patents (more pending), garnered many prestigious industry and academic awards, and underline $100Ms/pa revenues and $100Ms in valuation for the companies he worked with.
What our clients say
I would like to thank Michael Brand for his insightful review of my report. His remarks were professional, evidence of meticulous and careful examination of both the methodology and the analysis applied in the report. I have learnt a lot from his feedback and have implemented many of his suggestions for improvement which made an important contribution to my work. I highly recommend Otzma Analytics and Michael Brand.
Dr. Ran Porat
researcher@Monash University[Michael, head of Otzma Analytics] helped me gain enormous clarity on how to use machine learning as a strategic objective as well as information and data needs, analytics, and Big Data within the world of Investment Management. He also has great insight into the pitfalls and unintended consequences of managing data science projects. I would recommend Michael for consultancy and training work to help you optimise the business value you gain from data whether it be analytical modelling, data science or using artificial intelligence and more specifically machine learning.
Michael Watt
CEO@PortfolioMetricsLatest News
"Make Me Data Literate", March 4, 2024
Dr Michael Brand, head and founder of Otzma Analytics, was delighted to be interviewed by the wonderful Linda McIver for her podcast "Make Me Data Literate", where he explained the importance of peer review in order to put the "science" back in in Data Science.
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FinTracer at RMIT, February 7, 2024
Dr Michael Brand, head and founder of Otzma Analytics, was happy to be invited to RMIT, to give a talk titled "FinTracer: A Privacy-preserving Mechanism for Tracing Electronic Money", where he outlined the power and potential of the new FinTracer privacy-preserving technology, co-developed by Otzma Analytics and now available as open source.
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FinTracer released! November 23, 2023
Otzma Analytics is happy and excited to announce the public release of the source code, documentation and related research of the entire FinTracer suite (including FinTracer, FTIL, FTILlite, libftcrypto) -- the tools developed by Otzma Analytics and AUSTRAC to perform data analysis on financial transaction data under full privacy preservation.
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Data and Analytics Summit, Vic 2203, November 2, 2023
Otzma Analytics is excited for the upcoming Data and Analytics Summit, where its founder, Dr Michael Brand, will speak about the impact of AI and ML in advanced analytics.
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Practical Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning, September 5, 2023
Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML) has long been a holy grail of analytics. Otzma Analytics, INCERT GIE and The Royal Holloway, University of London, collaborated on new technologies that make PPML over Full Homomorphic Encryption into a practical option.
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The FinTracer Suite, August 21, 2023
Otzma Analytics is proud to share some more of the fruits of its collaboration with AUSTRAC, the Australian Transactions Reports and Analysis Centre, and ANU. The FinTracer suite is a Swiss-army knife for financial forensics, which allows detecting financial crime in nation-wide data without breaching the privacy of innocent bystanders.
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