About me

I'm a founder, creator and academic

My Story

Vishal is internationally recognised as a cultural data scientist with extensive experience managing data science, AI and 5G projects in the cultural and creative industries for several governments and international organisations. Building on his area of expertise, Vishal has gathered over 30,000 followers on social media as a content creator with his content reaching 1 million views.

Vishal previously was a researcher at The Bartlett at UCL and he studied at the London School of Economics and Sotheby’s Institute of Art and then worked at Sotheby’s as one of the company’s first-ever Data Scientists.

In 2020, Vishal co-Founded the Alice Camera as its CEO, a computational photography start-up building a novel AI camera for content creators, streamers and live events. The company is incubated at UCL and backed by Innovate UK and has raised $1.5 million in funding from venture capitalists since launching. The team has gone through accelerators run by the Digital Catapult, Nvidia and Entrepreneur First and have been nominated for an award by the Creative Industries Council.

2011-2014
London School of Economics

I studied a BSc in Economics and Geography at the London School of Economics. Graduated with a 2:1 (Hons).

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2015
Sotheby's Institute of Art

I studied an MA in Art Business at the Sotheby's Institute of Art. Graduated with a Distinction Grade

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2015- 2018
Sotheby's

I worked in Business Development and Corporate Strategy between London and New York. I become one of the company's first ever Data Scientists.

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2017-2022
The Bartlett, UCL

I did an MRes in Spatial Data Science and Visualisation as the Bartlett Scholar at CASA within The Bartlett at UCL.

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2019
cultureincities

I founded cultureincities in 2018, the world's first data science consultancy dedicated to arts and culture in cities

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2019
Entrepreneur First

I was accepted on the the 12th London Cohort of Entrepreneur First where I met my co-Founder, Dr Liam Donovan

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2019-PRESENT
Alice Camera

I am one of the co-Founders and CEO of the Alice Camera, a computational photography startup building a novel AI camera for creators.

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Awards

Digital Catapult Awards 2021

Alice Camera was nominated as a finalist for the Digital Catapult Awards as one of the UK startups exhibiting the fastest growth in the past 12-18 months!

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Ones to Watch 2020

Alice Camera was nominated as a one of the CreaTeach Ones to Watch by the Creative Industries Council in 2020.

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Together we can shape technology for culture and creativity

Hire me implement technologies with the goal of improving urban ecosystem management.

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