Paul Golding: Chief Scientist

My (Short) Story

Originally from the UK, I am an IEE prize winner with over 30 patents in a wide array of advanced technologies including AI, Bias in AI, Signal Processing, Computer Vision, Computational Aesthetics and blockchain.

In 2011, I moved to Silicon Valley after being awarded a rare self-sponsored “Genius Visa” from the US government. I did this to avail my kids of Silicon Valley’s innovation atmosphere and opportunities, fulfilling a lifetime dream to live and work amongst the chip pioneers I read about growing up.

I designed my first commercially-released product (fibre-optic multiplexor) whilst still an undergrad, aged 19, and was subsequently awarded the international Von Rheinhold Nostrand prize (leading tech publisher).

At age 22, I won the Motorola global patent of the year for a chip design (parallel processing, pre-GPU) that enabled radical shrinkage of cellular base stations.

I am one of the inventors of the mobile app and wrote several leading text books in the field. I also built the world’s first text messaging gateway (for Lucent Technologies).

In 2016 I met Sergey Brin to discuss a potential role running R&D for Google Glass (my PhD research in the 90s was in augmented reality) but the position was withdrawn with the demise of Glass.

I pioneered the use of machine learning co-processor techniques in the 90s whilst designing one of the first ML chips for GSM mobile phones, for which I have several key patents.

I helped some of the world’s best brands with technology transformation, including O2 in the UK where I also led the creation of their start-up incubator program whilst building a programmable telecoms platform via a novel scripting language called connFu.

I have held Chief Scientist, Chief Architect and CTO roles at a number of leading orgs across multiple continents.

I gave multiple keynotes at various prestigious corporate and public events, mostly as a “futurist”, although I shun that role these days as it became too meaningless.

Outside of work, I helped my wife to homeschool three kids by following a “renaissance” style eclectic education program that blended classical education with modern updates, hoping to instill polymathy. I am a proponent of teaching computational-based maths to kids in order to explore foundational ideas versus rote-learning and so on. We also studied Arisotle’s Poetics, but as applied to modern cinema. We were lucky that our kids also gained access to the pioneering EPGY high school at Stanford. Feel free to contact me if you want to know more.

I am a keen student of philosophy of mind, cognitive linguistics and aesthetics. I have developed several theories of “attention” for the purposes of building “augmented creativity” AI algorithms and recently (2019) filed patents for novel chatbot algorithms using attention (not of the self-attention kind in Transformers). My interest in linguistics began as a quest to make my digital note-taking more than just a digitized version of journaling, but rather a “mind extension”. This work is ongoing as a “pet project”.

For a more in-depth bio and reader on my background, please my fuller “Deep Mind” bio.