About
Lanterne is an award-winning data science company based in London.
We specialise in predicting micromobility demand.
CO-Founder
Alex Barnes
Alex is a political scientist. His DPhil is in International Development from the University of Oxford. He has previously worked as a senior analyst for IHS Markit advising Fortune 500 companies, as well as for the Australian Department of Defence in both Canberra and Afghanistan.
CO-Founder
Sebastian Mueller
Sebastian is Lanterne’s Chief Technology Officer and Head of Product. He specialises in natural language processing and machine learning. He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics where he has previously taught NLP.
CO-Founder
Yohan Iddawela
Yohan is a Geographic Information Systems specialist. His PhD is in Economic Geography from the London School of Economics. He has previously worked as an economist for the Institute for State Effectiveness in Afghanistan and Puerto Rico, and for the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
COO
Samuel Watts
Sam is a lawyer with a background in Commercial and Criminal law. He is qualified as a Solicitor in the UK, and as a Barrister and Solicitor in Australia. He has co-founded a legal start-up and worked in management positions at multiple large organisations.
Lead Data Scientist
Wian Stipp
Wian specialises in machine learning. He has experience in natural language processing with social media, computer vision and deep learning. He is also serial entrepreneur, having co-founded med-tech startup Intelocare. His BSc is in Mathematics from the London School of Economics.
Data Scientist
Alok Suresh
Alok is a data scientist with a background in physics, as well as experience in machine learning and NLP. He holds an MSc in Data Science and Machine Learning from University College London.
Software Engineer
Gabriel-Codrin Cojocaru
Codrin is Lanterne’s Software Engineer. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and is currently pursuing a MSc in Computational Optimization at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University. He has previously been an intern for companies like Amazon and Google and also built an online recruiting platform for a Romanian start-up.
Creative Lead
Stephanie Muñoz Visbal
Stephanie is Lanterne’s Creative Lead and responsible for UI/UX design. She specialises in user-centred design and has a background in the social sciences. When she’s not focusing on product design, she works on web development and growth marketing.
Our values
Openness: We believe in being honest and transparent with all customers and team members. Openness allows us to examine our products and processes honestly with a view to improving them.
Customer-driven products: We believe innovation can only succeed if the customer is at the centre of our design and engineering decisions. This trumps process-driven and short-term profit driven approaches to product development.
Respect: The best way of engaging with anyone is with mutual respect. This is sewn into the fabric of Lanterne.
Creativity: Innovation is defined by developing creative solutions to problems. At Lanterne we nurture autonomy and believe in MVPs—Minimum Viable Processes—to allow creativity to flourish.