Jack Shiels is an AI researcher and founder with extensive experience building and deploying large language models (LLMs) and reinforcement learning systems across research and commercial environments.
He is also the co-founder of shiels.ai, a Malaysian company where he has led the development of AI systems, including an RL-based research impact forecasting agent and an ontology-driven enterprise requirements and agent orchestration platform.
Previously, Jack conducted government-funded AI research at University College London on trustworthy LLM systems for IoT environments, contributing to a model ecosystem that reduced energy wastage by over 80%.
Before moving into AI research, Jack worked as a full-stack fintech software developer in the City of London. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, he has lived most of his life abroad in the UK, Ireland, and Malaysia.
