Lawrence Spracklen

Lawrence Spracklen has over 20 years of experience in the tech industry. Lawrence started their career in 2000 as a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems. In 2009, they joined NVIDIA as a Performance Lead. In 2010, they moved to VMware as a Senior Staff Engineer. In 2013, they joined Ayasdi as Vice President of Engineering and Chief Architect, a role they held until the company was acquired by Symphony AI in 2017. That same year, they joined TIBCO Software Inc. as Senior Director of Engineering, and Alpine Data as Vice President of Engineering. Alpine Data was acquired by TIBCO in 2017. In 2019, they became an Advisor at DriftPilot, and in 2020 they joined R-Squared AI as Chief Technology Officer. Currently, they are a Deep Learning Researcher and Senior Director at Numenta, where they are also Lead.

Lawrence Spracklen received their B.Sc. in Computational Physics from the University of York between 1992 and 1995. Lawrence then went on to the University of Aberdeen to pursue their Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, which they completed in 2001.