Lucas Atkins serves as CTO and Head of Research at Arcee, where he spearheaded the development of their proprietary training stack. A veteran in machine learning, Lucas engineered next-generation text-to-speech systems for leading automotive giants like Volkswagen, BMW, Ford, and Hyundai starting in late 2019, well before the current generative AI surge. His expertise extends to training specialized language translation systems for the UAE (2022) and pioneering work with AMD in 2023-2024 to optimize their enterprise GPUs for large-scale model training.