Nic Lane is a full Professor in the department of Computer Science and Technology, holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Decentralized AI, and is a Fellow of St. John's College, at the University of Cambridge. Nic also leads the Cambridge Machine Learning Systems Lab (CaMLSys) which investigates open problems at the intersection of ML and computational systems.

Alongside his academic appointments, he is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Flower Labs, a venture-backed AI company (YCW23) behind the Flower framework. Until March 2023, Nic was the Lab Director at Samsung AI in Cambridge. He was responsible for the technical direction of this 50-person lab that has an agenda of broadly advancing artificial intelligence in service of future Samsung products and services; and in addition to leading the lab -- Nic personally directed teams focused on distributed and on-device forms of learning.

Prior to his role at the University of Cambridge, Nic was an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Oxford. At Oxford, he was a member of the Cyber-Physical Systems group, taught machine learning on the Professional Masters Program (PMP) and was a Fellow of Kellogg College. Earlier in his career, Nic held dual appointments at University College London (UCL) and Nokia Bell Labs; at Nokia, as a Principal Scientist. In recent years, Nic has specialized in the study of efficient machine learning under computational constraints, and over the last seven years he has pioneered a range of embedded and mobile forms of deep learning.