Adam Farquhar
CEO at Digital Lifecycle Management Ltd
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Farquhar is a seasoned digital transformation leader and CEO with over 15 years’ experience shaping strategy and delivery for libraries, archives, and research organisations. He built and led the British Library’s Digital Scholarship and Digital Preservation programmes, stewarding major national collections and securing more than £35m in collaborative research funding. A former research scientist with a PhD in AI and Computer Science from UT Austin, he combines deep technical expertise in machine learning, knowledge representation and digital preservation with practical enterprise architecture and programme governance. He co-founded and chaired international initiatives such as DataCite and the Open Preservation Foundation, reflecting his commitment to interoperable, reusable research data and sustainable digital heritage. Now running Digital Lifecycle Management, he advises on pragmatic AI adoption and long-term digital curation—bringing academic rigour to board-level and consultancy engagements while focusing on real-world impact.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Sciences, PhD, Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at AustinBA, Mathematics, Philosophy, Classics, BA, Mathematics, Philosophy, Classics at St. John's College
German
Github Skills (28)
pytorch-lightning10
pycocotools10
python9
fastai9
command-line-tool9
jupyter-notebook8
windows-subsystem-for-linux8
computer-vision8
object-detection8
faster-rcnn8
deep-learning8
ai8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
data-science8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
adamfarquhar/icedata
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
IceData: Datasets Hub for the *IceVision* Framework
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
datasetsicevisiondataset
adamfarquhar/tmp-oct5
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 branch, 5 comments, 8 issues in 1 day
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