John Flackett
Co-founder & Head, AiLab (Artificial Intelligence Laboratory)
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJohn Flackett is an AI researcher-turned-entrepreneur with over 30 years in the field and a PhD in NLP and machine learning, now co-founding and leading AiLab to deliver AI education, research and advisory across the UK, Australia and New Zealand. He blends deep algorithmic expertise—particularly in representational adequacy, feature extraction, signal fusion and hybrid systems—with practical experience building commercial-grade software as co-founder and technical director of koolth. A former senior academic who supervised PhD students and launched an AiLab at AUT, he advises government AI policy and regularly presents workshops globally on AI’s societal and workforce impact. Known for creating learning environments and community-building (co-founding the largest AI meetup in South Australia), he pairs scholarly rigor with hands-on product and training delivery to guide organisations on their AI journeys.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
61reputation
15kreached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (10)
neat9
yeoman8
modernizr8
bourbon7
report-viewer6
asp-net6
yeoman-generator6
visual-studio6
generator5
thoughtbot2
Github contributions (3)
koolth/generator-bourbon-neat
May 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 release, 23 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 9 months
modernizryeomanoptionsyeoman-generatorbourbon-neat
leogaggl/whatgrowshere
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 2 days
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