Head of AI
Sportlight
Nikolay Falaleev has led Sportlight's artificial intelligence initiatives since 2020, delivering industry-leading player tracking and fitness data to elite football clubs.
A Deep Learning specialist with over eight years of experience, Nikolay excels at designing, implementing, and deploying complex products for real-time applications requiring high accuracy.
His expertise lies in multi-modal data processing for multi-task scenarios, with a particular focus on video-based Computer Vision applications in sport.
Nikolay's background combines academic research and industry experience, allowing him to bridge the gap between cutting-edge innovation and commercially viable solutions. He has a proven track record of overseeing AI software and hardware architecture, data pipelines, and solution design optimisation, ensuring successful end-to-end project delivery.