Jeff Dalton
Head Of Artificial Intelligence & Chief Scientist at The Alan Turing Institute
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Dalton is a research-driven AI leader with 13 years of experience building conversational agents, information retrieval systems, and applied ML for real-world use. As Head of AI & Chief Scientist at Valence and Associate Professor leading the GRILL lab at the University of Edinburgh, he blends academic rigor with product-focused engineering to advance multimodal LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation. He has steered award-winning student teams (Alexa Prize Taskbot), advised startups and industry (Bloomberg, Google), and holds a Turing AI Fellowship supporting next-generation information assistants. Known for work that bridges search, knowledge graphs, and conversational understanding, he also brings practical production experience from early search engine and Google Assistant projects. Based in Edinburgh, he uniquely combines deep IR/LLM research with hands-on system building and public-facing policy, consulting and speaking on responsible deployment of models like Llama2 and GPT-4.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Union CollegeUniversity of OxfordHarvard Medical SchoolPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Spanish
Github Skills (46)
benchmark9
synonym9
benchmarking9
client-library9
google-cloud9
cloud-storage8
matching8
gcp8
java8
google8
google-cloud-platform8
keras-tensorflow8
vertex7
natural-language-processing7
natural-language-understanding7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
daltonj/CIIRShared
Oct 2017 - Aug 2022
repository for the clue/synonym project
Contributions:16 pushes in 4 years 10 months
cluesynonym
daltonj/treccastweb
Nov 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:120 commits, 6 PRs, 118 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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