Daniel Hails
Co-Founder @ Kular | AI/ML Research
Greater London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2024 - Current
Research Lead, Engineering Manager
2023 - 2024
Founding Engineer / Research Scientist
2023 - 2023
- Automating impossible searches 'find 50 strawberry hydroponics labs in Northern Europe that need IP advice'. - Passing a 'Turing test' thousands of times a day - Reinforcement learning of (not on!) human preferences
Software Engineer
2020 - 2021
Renovated Netcraft’s Web Shell service (automated identification and removal of backdoors using a variety of AI techniques) leading to >200k new Web Shells detections. Promoted to Team Lead, managing 2 Software Engineers. Led the Web Shell response to the global ProxyLogon incident (Outlook Remote Code Execution vulnerability). Won a new Web Shell focused contract from Microsoft, and supported other contracts from five countries' national cybersecurity centers. Automated the analysis of 4,500 new malware samples through automated decryption, and extracted 600 ransomware payment portals.
South-East Head Organiser & Alumnus
2016 - 2019
Individually selected to represent the UK internationally on the Gender Equality Committee in Menden Germany. I have since remained an active member, representing the UK across some of the 40 countries EYP is involved with and taking a role in the management and organisation of other sections, including: UK - South East Regional Session I & II 2017, Co-Head Organiser UK - South East Regional Session I & II 2018, Solo Head Organiser Germany - International Forum Session 2016 EYP Germany, Delegate UK - Summer National Session 2019, Chair
Research Assistant
2018 - 2019
As part of a UROP, I expanded the Flint Programming Language from a proof of concept. Supervised by Professors Susan Eisenbach and Sophia Drossopoulou, I worked on the paper relating some of the new features designed to make smart contracts more robust and safe. We've now released this as an open source compiler on GitHub.
Founder
2011 - 2018
Harnessing my 12 year old's drive for making spare pocket money lead to the founding of my first company. CybaBrain (supporting a freelancing career) provided a tenacity, business awareness, and customer focus that is difficult to gain without making mistakes and putting real money on the line. Web Development - Bespoke small business websites decreasing bounce rates by 60% and increasing goal completion by 25%. Video Editing - Created Vox Populi for market research companies to present to blue chip brands (e.g. Boots, Dixons, Homebase and Bonmarché) preventing the loss of thousands to the bottom line.
Summer Intern
2015 - 2015
- Part of the Consumer Data and Analytics Team in TACIT which works on gaining insights from 'Big Data' to push competitive advantages. I was involved in summarising data to get overall statistics used to present to stakeholders. - Gained familiarity with the DEX trading platform - Acquired techniques to identify potential compliance problems - Gained knowledge of the new Point of Sale system - Created a promotional video for the Lync system at Shell - Was involved with organising a Shell Hackathon - Created a web design for use by the ITConnect group
Shell Oil Company is an oil and gas company that explores and produces energy products.
Summer Intern
2015 - 2015
Joined the Compilers and Tools team to create a fuzzer - a program that automatically generated valid (semantically and syntactically) MIPS assembly code - to test the flexibility, and completeness of a new compiler.
Summer Intern
2015 - 2015
EF is an pre-seed investment programme that helps technical founders build Deep Technology companies. I joined some seriously impressive people within the Talent team to aid with: Fund Launch Party (finding details for 300+ Market Leading Investors, Journalists and Entrepreneurs and purchasing vital items for it) Finding 86 new talent leads through the "City to Startup" scheme from companies such as Accenture, McKinsey & Co, The Economist, JP Morgan.