Ian Hales
Director Of AI Engineering at Apheris
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIan Hales is a Director of AI Engineering based in Bristol with eight years of hands-on experience bridging academic computer vision research and product-focused ML engineering. With a PhD in Computer Vision and a First-Class BSc from the University of Leeds, he leads R&D and productionisation efforts that transform experimental vision models into reliable systems. At Apheris he combines technical leadership with practical delivery, overseeing teams that ship applied privacy-preserving and vision-driven solutions. His GitHub playground of unfinished side projects reflects a continual curiosity and rapid prototyping mindset that fuels innovation inside teams. Colleagues describe him as a leader who balances deep research rigor with pragmatic engineering trade-offs. He brings both the theoretical background to push model capabilities and the operational sense to make them useful in real-world contexts.
8 years of coding experience
BSc Hons., Computer Science, I, BSc Hons., Computer Science, I at University of Leeds
English
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Github Skills (65)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
HalestormAI/Currere
Sep 2017 - Feb 2020
Running application synchronisation and visualisation
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
synchronisationvisualisation
graphcore/pytorch-lightning-examples
Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
A collection of tutorials and examples showing how to use Graphcore's IPUs with PyTorch Lightning
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 5 months
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