Nick Lothian
Staff Engineer at Sii - Screen Industry Innovation
Greater Adelaide Area Australia
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Top SchoolNick Lothian is a Staff Engineer and AI/ML technical leader with 16 years’ experience turning research-heavy ideas in forecasting, NLP, and privacy-preserving ML into production systems used by industry, government and national security. He has held CTO and Head of ML/Product roles, co-authored papers in PNAS, ACM and Springer, and is a co-inventor on an NLP geolocation patent, demonstrating both research credibility and practical delivery. Nick has led award-winning projects (National AI Centre Sprint 2024, Red Dot Design Award 2022) and built large-scale pipelines for forecasting and unstructured data processing. Active in the Australian AI ecosystem, he co-founded the Artificial Intelligence Collaborative Network and runs AI.Build Club in Adelaide, helping bridge academia, industry and policy. He currently focuses on differential privacy and AI-enabled legal services, combining deep technical expertise with a knack for shipping usable, privacy-conscious products. An unusual strength is his track record of moving high-impact national security research into resilient commercial products.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer and Infomation Science, Computer and Infomation Science at University of South AustraliaFirst Believers Investment, First Believers Investment at Startmate
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Github Skills (200)
python10
pipeline-framework10
pitch10
deep-learning10
gpu10
stream-processing10
nbdev10
streaming10
calculator10
video-processing10
ml10
fastai10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
mediapipe10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nlothian/Acuitra
Dec 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:92 commits in 2 months
nlothian/TIL
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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