Jeff Dalton
Visiting Scholar at School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
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.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Union CollegeYear abroad at New College, with a focus on History and English., Year abroad at New College, with a focus on History and English. at University of OxfordExecutive Training (Medical Doctor) Program, including bioinformatics and clinical medicine., Executive Training (Medical Doctor) Program, including bioinformatics and clinical medicine. at Harvard Medical SchoolPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Spanish
Github Skills (42)
benchmark9
keras-tensorflow9
synonym9
benchmarking9
keras8
google-cloud8
matching8
gcp8
java8
google8
google-cloud-platform7
natural-language-processing7
cloud-storage7
natural-language-understanding7
nlp7
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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