Summary
Charles Melby-Thompson is an AI researcher and engineering leader with five years of industry experience who currently serves as Tech Lead of the AI Lab at AI inside in Tokyo. He designs and ships end-to-end AI systems—from synthetic data and model training to an internal scalable workflow platform and on-premises inference infrastructure—bridging research-grade methods with production constraints. His background includes postdoctoral research in theoretical physics and a PhD from UC Berkeley, giving him deep quantitative rigor that he applies to practical engineering problems. Known for shepherding work on AI agents and infrastructure, he excels at turning experimental ideas into robust, deployable systems alongside multidisciplinary teams.
5 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics at University of California, Berkeley
MSc, Mathematics and Computer Science, MSc, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Oxford
A.B., Physics, A.B., Physics at Princeton University