People — § 00 / 12 researchers · 3 cities

The people behind the evidence.

Linguists, computer scientists, former regulators, and certified translators. What they share is a refusal to ship language they can’t defend in front of a court, a regulator, or an auditor.

Composition
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AI Team03
Leadership03
Advisory03
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Sorted · Name A→Z
JZ
Jurga Zilinskiene MBE
CEO, Founder & Coder

Founder and CEO. MBE for International Trade. Queen’s Award recipient. Entrepreneur in residence, Sheffield Hallam.

Leadership London
AS
Prof. Alex Shenfield
Lead Academic · Machine Learning

Professor at the National Centre for Excellence in Food Engineering, Sheffield Hallam. Lead academic across both Guildhawk KTPs.

Academic Sheffield
CR
Dr. Chris Roast
Lead Academic · Research & Innovation

Interaction design and cross-disciplinary industrial research. PhD, University of York.

Academic Sheffield
AA
Dr. Alexandra Anderson
Lead Academic · Strategic Transformation

Thirty years’ commercial experience working with SMEs adopting digital innovation for sustainable growth.

Academic Sheffield
II
Isham Iqbal
Lead Software Developer

ISO 27001:2022 Lead Auditor. Nine years’ software engineering; MSc Cyber Security in progress.

AI Team Sheffield
FN
Dr. Francimaria Nascimento
AI Engineer · NLP

PhD Computer Science. NLP and ML for industrial applications, AI-bias evaluation, and fake-news detection.

AI Team London
SU
Shashwat Upadhyay
Machine Learning Engineer

Joined 2024 via the SHU KTP. MSc Data Science, Bristol. Novel LLM translation research.

AI Team Sheffield
AB
Alex Bessant
Head of Technology Delivery

Joined 2018. MA Translation, Exeter. APM-accredited project management; leads digital avatar initiatives.

Leadership London
GR
Giorgia Romani
Head of Business Operations

Built Guildhawk’s private multilingual data lake powering Guildhawk Aided. MA Translation, University of Turin.

Leadership London
MF
Dr. Morwenna Fellows
Special Advisor · Multilingual Safety

Multilingual safety research across construction, mining, and energy. Doctorate in Construction Management.

Advisory Barcelona
DC
David Clarke
CSO & Special Advisor · Fraud

Former Detective Chief Superintendent, City of London Police. Designer of AMLiss™ multilingual fraud detection.

Advisory London
KF
Ksenija Fedorenko
Legal & Compliance Advisor

LL.M. University College London. Change and incident management; internal and external audits.

Advisory London
Hiring · 2026

We’re hiring researchers who treat language like evidence.

Open roles: Senior Researcher (Ambiguity), Research Engineer (Evaluation), Certified Legal Translator (EN→ZH-HK). London and Hong Kong. Remote considered for senior candidates.

Apply [email protected]

Include a piece of work we can actually read — paper, code, or a translated artefact you stand behind.