Niels Leadholm
Research Manager at Modux
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNiels Leadholm is a research manager and neuro-AI specialist with eight years of interdisciplinary experience bridging theoretical neuroscience and machine learning. He leads a team at the Thousand Brains Project focused on reverse-engineering the mammalian neocortex to build sensorimotor intelligence, drawing on a DPhil from Oxford and prior senior research roles at Numenta. As co-founder and product director of a profitable biomedical software company, he pairs deep research with practical product and UX delivery, having generated over $5M in sales. His work emphasizes neuroscience-inspired architectures and few-shot visual recognition, and he has a rare combination of clinical medical training and computational research that informs a systems-level view of intelligence.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Open Degree (partially completed), Applied Mathematics, Open Degree (partially completed), Applied Mathematics at The Open UniversityDPhil (PhD), Interdisciplinary Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership, Theoretical Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, DPhil (PhD), Interdisciplinary Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership, Theoretical Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence at University of OxfordJakarta Intercultural SchoolBachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.), Medicine, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.), Medicine at University of Bristol
English, Danish
Github Skills (15)
machine-learning10
paper9
theory9
algorithms9
adversarial-attacks8
keras8
pytorch6
python6
data-analysis5
data-science5
tensorflow5
inference4
jax4
visualizations4
neural-network3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nielsleadholm/nupic.research
Sep 2020 - Jul 2022
Experimental algorithms. Unsupported.
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
data-structuresunsupported
thousandbrainsproject/monty_lab
Jan 2025 - Jun 2025
An archive of previous experiment files and data analysis scripts.
Contributions:54 reviews, 6 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 months
data-analysis
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