Nic Lane is a co-founder of Flower Labs, and has been working on Flower since its creation. Nic is also a full Professor in Machine Learning Systems at the University of Cambridge . Previously, he has been on the faculty of Oxford and UCL. Nic additionally has 12-years experience in industrial research (including Microsoft Research and Nokia Bell Labs). Most recently as co-founder and Head of the Samsung AI Center in Cambridge; a 50-staff AI lab started in 2018.