PROF LUCIA SPECIA
Founder & Chief Scientist

• Professor of Natural Language Processing, Imperial College London

• World-leading expert in multilingual NLP and multimodal machine learning (vision and language)

• Regularly voted Top 5 women innovators and researchers who made a difference in AI; Silicon Republic Top 19 STEM influencers

• Published over 200 papers with more than 12,000 citations

• AI advisor to Facebook guiding the design, implementation and deployment in production of quality prediction systems

MARINA FOMICHEVA
Director of Research

• PhD in Computational Linguistics

• Over 10 years R&D experience creating state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to solve natural language problems

• Ranked #1 at the WMT2020 shared task on Quality Estimation for Machine Translation

• Keynote speaker at NLG Evaluation workshop at INLG2020, the leading conference in language generation

DAVID PYE
Lead Research Engineer

• MPhil Cambridge University, Computer Speech & Language Processing

• 25 years of experience as speech and language professional with core expertise in and around speech recognition and generation as a researcher, developer and team leader

• Long-term enthusiast of machine learning and delivering neural network solutions throughout their working in speech recognition technologies

• Ex-Amazon working on Alexa

OZAN CAGLAYAN
Senior Research Engineer

• PhD in Multimodal Machine Learning

• Over 15 years R&D/software development experience solving multimodal problems across natural language, computer vision & speech

• Best paper award at NAACL’19 conference for the paper  “Probing the Need for Visual Context in Multimodal Machine Translation”

• Ranked #1 at the WMT2016 and WMT2017 shared tasks on Multimodal Machine Translation

VIKTORIIA SHARMANSKA
Senior Research Engineer

• PhD in Computer Vision and Machine Learning

• Over 12 years R&D experience covering video data analysis/synthesis and algorithmic fairness methods to mitigate machine bias

• Awarded prestigious 4-year Imperial College Research Fellowship to pursue research in deep learning methods for human behaviour analysis

• Published numerous papers at top-tier ML/Vision conferences, e.g. CVPR, ICCV, ECCV

SERGEY MARTYNENKO
Senior Research Engineer

• MA/BA in Economics, Mathematics & Computer Science

• Over 10 years experience solving business problems applying Statistics, Machine Learning & Deep Learning

• Over 3 years R&D and software development experience solving speech recognition and other audio-related problems

ALEX GASKELL
Research Engineer

• MSc in Artificial Intelligence, Imperial College; BSc Cambridge University

• 4 years as data scientist/ML engineer at Tiktok, Data Analysis Bureau, Lovespace

ANTIGONI FOUNTA
Research Engineer

• MSc in Computer Science, Aristotle University

• 5 years experience in hate speech data creation and analytics, incl. Telefonica & Qustodio (parental control software startup)

• Built the most widely used hate speech dataset (Founta et al., 2018)

ZHENHAO LI
Research Engineer

• MSc in Artificial Intelligence, Imperial College

• 4 years experience designing & developing solutions to improve the robustness of deep-learning models

• Author of patented solution for word segmentation

ZIXU WANG
Research Engineer

• MSc in Artificial Intelligence, Imperial College

• 4 years experience designing and developing computer vision algorithms for various multimodal ML problems

ATOM ANUCHITANUKUL
Research Engineer

• MSc in Machine Learning, Imperial College, BEng University College London

• 3 years experience creating reinforcement learning algorithms for NLP

• Winner of the ICML-EXVO challenge on detecting emotion, age and country from audio

MEHDI BAHRI
Research Engineer

• PhD in 3D & Graph Machine Learning, Imperial College, Qualcomm Innovation Fellow

• Over 6 years R&D experience in machine learning & computer vision

• Industry experience in research engineering (Google, JPMorgan & startups)

Supported by experienced operators and advisors

BRENDA MCKENNA
Co-Founder & COO

• Business Founder with hands-on experience across the full venture life cycle, from startup to exit

• Over 15 years experience developing and delivering innovative products to market at both startup and growth stage businesses

• University of Oxford: BA (Hons), Law 

PROF STEFANOS ZAFEIRIOU
Senior Advisor

• Professor, Imperial College 

• World leader in computer vision

• Built and exited two computer vision companies

ERNESTO SCHMITT
Chair (NED)

• Serial Tech Founder & Managing Partner at The Craftory VC Fund

• AI venture exits to Twitter, Snapchat and Intel