Ivan Jacobs
Vice President, Head Of AI Lab Cyber Centre Of Excellence at ST Engineering
Singapore
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Top SchoolIvan Jacobs is a seasoned AI executive and cybersecurity leader with over two decades of experience building enterprise-grade AI, data science, and security capabilities across industry, government, and academia. As Vice President and Head of the AI Lab Cyber Centre of Excellence at ST Engineering, he turns advanced research into reusable, production-ready platforms that accelerate product engineering and commercial outcomes for OT, IT, digital forensics and professional services. He holds a PhD in Business Innovation, an MS in Data Science, and is an MBA candidate at Imperial College, combining deep technical fluency with strategic and commercial insight. Ivan has led EU-wide AI platform initiatives used by millions, advised European Commission directorates, founded an AI consultancy, and supervises PhD research—evidence of a rare bridge between policy, research and product delivery. He is passionate about agentic systems and autonomous decision-making, and intentionally focuses on converting R&D into measurable business value rather than research for its own sake. Based in Singapore, he builds high-performing multidisciplinary teams that remove complexity and deliver defensible AI capability for critical infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Business Management, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Business Management at Swiss School of Business ResearchMaster of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management General at Imperial College LondonMaster of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
English, French, Dutch, Bulgarian, Russian
Github Skills (41)
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
docker-engine10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
docker9
docker-swarm9
bioinformatics9
api9
angular9
cli8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ivanjacobs/ivanjacobs.github.io
Mar 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
ai4u-ai/ASYNT-GAN
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:13 commits in 1 day
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