Jake Rutherford

A Senior Researcher at vLex and the University of Oxford.

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About me

Highly skilled and open to collaboration.

Professional Profile

Senior Research Engineer with a focus on solving complex problems in natural language processing and network science.

I have a strong background in developing AI-powered solutions for legal, climate, and music industries.

Current Interests

Integrating AI technologies into specialised domains.

Developing innovative applications of knowledge graphs.

Foundational research in information retrieval and language modelling.

Projects

Innovative solutions in AI, legal tech, and data science.

2024 - Present AI Research

vLex: Legal Research and Workflows with Vincent AI

Developing Vincent AI, vLex's cutting-edge legal AI assistant.

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2023 - Present AI Research

CLARA: AI-Powered Climate Litigation Research

Leading the development of an AI-powered chatbot for climate litigation research, utilising RAG and LLMs at the University of Oxford.

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Career Timeline

Roles I have had over the years.

vLex

Senior Research Engineer

05/2024 - Present

Founding engineer of vLex's Legal AI R&D team, focusing on integrating AI technologies into legal solutions.

NLP Legal AI Knowledge Graphs MLOps RAG

University of Oxford

Researcher

09/2023 - Present (part-time)

Leading the development of an AI-powered chatbot for climate litigation research, utilising RAG and LLMs.

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RAG NLP Climate Research MLOps

Mishcon de Reya

Data Scientist

05/2022 - 05/2024

Revolutionised music rights workflows, built knowledge graphs, and implemented advanced record linkage systems. Advanced MLOps practices and collaborated on end-to-end ML applications.

Knowledge Graphs Record Linkage Computer Vision NLP MLOps

Government Digital Service

Data Scientist

08/2021 - 05/2022

Enhanced GOV.UK's content connectivity and user feedback analysis. Applied advanced NLP techniques and graph algorithms to improve digital services.

Knowledge Graphs NLP Community Detection

Blogs

Writings about me and my work.

vLex

The People Behind Vincent

The People Behind Vincent is a new series designed to shine a light on the talented people driving innovation at vLex. First up is Senior Research Engineer, Jake Rutherford. Discover what drew him to legal tech, surprising facts, and his thoughts on the future.

Jake Rutherford

Jake Rutherford

Senior Research Engineer