Martin Lukac
Head Of Engineering And AI at Flank
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Lukac is a CTO and AI researcher with eight years of experience building agentic systems and ethical guardrails for high-stakes applications, currently leading AI at Flank to insource enterprise legal work via supervised agents. He co-founded Sentra, an AI mental health companion for veterans and first responders, and maintains PsySafe, an open-source toolkit for psychological safety in crisis-sensitive AI, reflecting a rare blend of product leadership and public-interest focus. With a PhD in computational social science and published work on voice-based personality prediction, he combines machine learning, agent-based modelling, and causal methods to move research into production. His background spans startups, healthcare ML at QuantCo, and academic roles at LSE, Oxford and KU Leuven, enabling him to navigate technical, ethical and empirical challenges. Based between Berlin and London but operating from the UK, he brings an interdisciplinary perspective—equally at home designing experiments and shipping robust, auditable AI systems.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Social Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Social Science at KU LeuvenResearch Visit, Research Visit at University of OxfordBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Political Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Political Science at Univerzita Komenského v BratislaveMaster of Arts (MA), Governance and Global Affairs, Master of Arts (MA), Governance and Global Affairs at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) MFA Russia MGIMO
Slovak, Czech, English, Russian, German
Github Skills (7)
meta-analysis7
power-analysis6
binder5
jekyll4
python4
data-science3
psychology3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mblukac/conjoints-power-shiny
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
Source code for the Conjoint Experiments: Power Analysis Tool by Martin Lukac and Alberto Stefanelli.
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 6 months
psychologymeta-analysisconjointpoweropenscience
mblukac/mblukac.github.io
Aug 2020 - Apr 2024
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:35 pushes in 3 years 8 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
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