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Nic Lane

Nic Lane

RAEng. Chair Prof. Uni of Cam. and co-founder/CSO Flower

Co-founderFlower logoFlower· Winter 2023Greater Cambridge Area
2023Co-founder· Flower Labs
Founder · since 2023
Company
Flower Labs
Role
Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer
current
Stage
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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role
Source: LinkedIn work history
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Flower

Train AI on distributed data

Winter 2023

Experience

Career

  • University of Cambridge logo

    University of Cambridge

    Professor · 2022 – Present

    2022
  • University of Cambridge logo

    University of Cambridge

    Associate Professor · 2021 – 2022

    2021
  • University of Cambridge logo

    University of Cambridge

    Senior Lecturer · Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom · 2020 – 2021

    2020
  • Flower Labs logo

    Flower Labs

    Co-founder

    Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer · 2023 – Present

    2023
  • St John's College, Cambridge logo

    St John's College, Cambridge

    Fellow · Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom · 2022 – Present

    2022
  • LEX AI logo

    LEX AI

    Advisory Board Member · 2021 – Present

    2021
  • Samsung Electronics logo

    Samsung Electronics

    Laboratory Director (Samsung AI, Cambridge) · 2021 – 2023

    2021
  • Samsung Electronics logo

    Samsung Electronics

    Program Director (On-Device and Distributed AI) · Cambridge, United Kingdom · 2018 – 2023

    2018
  • University of Oxford logo

    University of Oxford

    Associate Professor · Oxford, United Kingdom · 2017 – 2020

    2017
  • Nokia Bell Labs logo

    Nokia Bell Labs

    Principal Scientist · Cambridge, United Kingdom · 2015 – 2018

    2015
  • UCL logo

    UCL

    Senior Lecturer · London, United Kingdom · 2016 – 2017

    2016
  • Microsoft logo

    Microsoft

    Lead Researcher (Microsoft Research) · Beijing City, China · 2011 – 2015

    2011

Bio

Nic Lane is a co-founder of Flower Labs, and has been working on Flower since its creation. Nic is also a full Professor in Machine Learning Systems at the University of Cambridge . Previously, he has been on the faculty of Oxford and UCL. Nic additionally has 12-years experience in industrial research (including Microsoft Research and Nokia Bell Labs). Most recently as co-founder and Head of the Samsung AI Center in Cambridge; a 50-staff AI lab started in 2018.