Teaching partners

Nicholas D. Lane is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge where he leads the Machine Learning Systems Lab. Prior to joining Cambridge, Dr Lane was an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford (2017 to 2020) and Senior Lecturer at the University of London (2016 to 2017).

Nicholas also has more than 10 years of experience in industrial research. Alongside his academic position, he is currently a Director at the Samsung AI Centre in Cambridge. Previously, he has been a Principal Scientist at Nokia Bell Labs and a Lead Researcher at Microsoft Research in Beijing.

Find out more: niclane.org/

Filip Svoboda is a research assistant in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge where he works on empowering Federated Learning through model compression and acceleration.

Prior to joining Cambridge, he was part of the Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems centre for doctoral training at the University of Oxford.