Paul Golding: Coder, Builder, Transformer.

My Background & Skill Set

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.

Somewhat uniquely IME, I can be a highly-technical product vision and architect leader, or a highly product-aware technical leader in deep-tech programs. I often alternate between running advanced-tech labs and hands-on building/research. My consulting approach has enabled me to pursue both tracks.

In 2011, I moved to Silicon Valley after being awarded a rare self-sponsored “Genius Visa”. Although a passionate “techie”, I confess that I made the move to avail my kids of Silicon Valley’s innovation potential whilst fulfilling a childhood dream to work amongst the chip pioneers I had read about whilst growing up.

I designed my first commercial product (X.21 fibre-optic multiplexor) whilst still an undergrad, aged 19, and was subsequently awarded the international Von Rheinhold Nostrand prize (leading tech publisher) and the IEE prize.

At only age 22, I won the then-prestigious Motorola global patent of the year award for a novel chip co-processor design (pre-GPGPU) that enabled radical scaling of cellular networks. My method has been used in trillions of GSM calls to mitigate co-channel interference — the critical factor in cellular scaling.

I went on to become one of the inventors of the mobile app and wrote several leading text books in the field for Wiley Publishing. I also built the world’s first text messaging gateway (for Lucent Technologies) and the world’s first mobile portal for Netscape.

In 2016 I was interviewed by Sergey Brin to run next-generation Google Glass “labs” (my PhD research in the 90s was in augmented reality) but the position didn’t materialize after the demise of Glass (since rebooted for 2025 relaunch).

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 various patents related to co-processor architecture and computation acceleration.

I have helped many of the world’s leading brands with technology transformation, including O2 in the UK where I led the creation of their start-up incubator program whilst building a programmable telecoms platform that included a novel scripting language of my own design called connFu.

I have held Chief Scientist, Chief Architect and CTO roles at a number of leading orgs across multiple continents, often within a high-performing sales culture (note that I am fully trained in SPIN selling).

I have given many keynotes at various prestigious corporate and public events, mostly with a “futurist” slant, although I shun that role these days as it became meaningless in the TED-talks era.

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, 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 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 “passion project”.

To know more about me and how I can help your enterprise, please contact me.