I direct AI programmes that ship.
Associate Professor at Southampton and AI Strategist. I've built AI capability from zero in five organisations — a Ministry of Defence intelligence platform, BT, a regulated finance platform at 98% accuracy, one of the first agentic legal-AI systems, and a GenAI start-up joined at its founding.
Don't read about it. Try it.
PICASO: AI that says how sure it is
My latest work, for the Alan Turing Institute's Defence & Security Programme. Every entity is a probability cloud, not a point, so vague or conflicting evidence shows up as honest doubt.
Open the demo ↗ InteractiveThe Tokenizer Tax
The same sentence, translated, costs up to nine times more tokens depending on its language. Measured across 19 languages.
See what your language costs → InteractiveConceptual Spaces
Meaning as geometry: entities are points, properties are regions, similarity is distance. Five live figures from ten years of work.
Take the tour → Latest MyThThe Question I Never Heard
I have bombed two interviews for jobs I badly wanted, and in both of them my failure was the same: I could not understand a word the interviewer was saying.
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Real citing papers, sourced from Semantic Scholar — 1,200+ citations, h-index 18.
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Research at Scale.
- British Telecom: Deployed multi-task Transformer models that redefined their internal intent classification and entity recognition pipelines.
- eBay: Developed multi-modal hypergraph models for CTR prediction, recognized by global leadership as a "Top 3 Leaders Choice."
- FinTex Ltd: Architected the core AI engine for RoleCatcher, bridging research models with large-scale industrial production.
- Thomson Reuters: Collaborated on high-stakes Bayesian uncertainty modeling for domain-specific document intelligence.
Global Recognition.
- Vice Chancellor's Award Finalist (2024): One of three finalists out of 630 applications for teaching excellence at Southampton.
- ACS Digital Disruptors Winner (2022): Honored for groundbreaking work in multi-modal AI modeling.
- Outstanding Early-Career Researcher (2021): Awarded for significant scientific output and research income. Read more →
- Best Research Awards Finalist: Represented CUHK's entire Faculty of Engineering in the ACM Hong Kong competition.
Four moments, eighteen years.
A search engine, on a front page
Built ThinkSearch as an undergraduate in India. The Hindustan Times ran it on the front page. I have worked on retrieval ever since.
The origin story → 2014A bet on word order
My Hong Kong doctorate argued word order and document structure matter, against the bag-of-words consensus. Transformers later proved it.
The thesis, and the Mario story → 2017–24Research that reached production
Directed £1.87M of AI R&D into live systems at BT, Neotas, Wyser and Mersea Homes — and owned the technical direction of a GenAI start-up.
Fourteen engagements → NowTeaching machines to doubt
For the Ministry of Defence, with the Alan Turing Institute: AI that knows when not to trust its own answer. Shipped open source.
Inside the programme →Let's build the future of AI together.
I am always open to high-impact collaborations that bridge the gap between rigorous research and global industrial needs.
For Industry
Advisory on AI risk, governance, and the deployment of large-scale NLP systems.
Consulting InquiryFor Students
Prospective PhD students with strong mathematical backgrounds and a drive for impact.
Please contact me by email only, at M.S.Jameel@southampton.ac.uk. I do not respond to phone calls, WhatsApp or social-media messages. If you do not hear back, please assume I cannot take up your query or that your research interests do not align with mine.
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