Julian Richardson is an AI consultant with three decades of research and industry experience, combining a PhD from Edinburgh with production deployments at Google and leadership of Blue Prism AI Labs. He moves easily between deep literature-driven research and hands-on engineering, building prototypes and production back ends (most recently for Kestrix) and mentoring teams and individuals. His background spans NLP, machine learning and software engineering across academia, NASA and major tech firms, with over 30 refereed publications and conference leadership experience. Former roles include senior engineering at Google on NLP and leading natural language efforts at Powerset/Microsoft Bing, reflecting a rare blend of product-facing impact and academic rigor. Based in the New Forest, he now consults and advises startups, remaining active in implementation while also writing fiction and making pottery in his spare time. Notably, he has repeatedly translated competitive research grants and lab projects into working software and commercial prototypes.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Artificial Intelligence, PhD Artificial Intelligence at The University of Edinburgh
MA Mathematics, MA Mathematics at University of Cambridge
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