Phil Blunsom
Chief Technology Officer at Cohere
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Blunsom is a seasoned AI research leader and technology executive with 13 years of experience bridging cutting-edge machine learning research and production-grade systems. Currently serving as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Scientist at Cohere, he previously held roles as Principal Researcher at DeepMind and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, blending academic rigor with industry-scale deployment. His background includes a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne and a track record of translating deep learning advances into real-world products and teams. Phil is known for shaping research directions while also running engineering organizations that ship robust ML services. Based in Oxford, he brings a global perspective from leading teams in both the UK and international AI hubs. Less obvious: he has consistently moved between academia and industry, enabling rapid transfer of novel algorithms into commercial platforms.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Github Skills (6)
machine-learning10
word-embeddings10
nlp10
deep-learning10
natural-language-understanding10
natural-language-processing10
Github contributions (2)
oxford-cs-deepnlp-2017/lectures
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
Oxford Deep NLP 2017 course
Contributions:54 commits, 1 PR, 53 pushes in 4 months
nlpnatural-language-understandingword-embeddingsoxfordnatural-language-processing
pauldb89/OxLM
Dec 2012 - Mar 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 1 year 2 months
modellingoxfordlanguage-modellingneural-language-modelling
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