Leadership

2025–nowSenior Director, Edge AI · ArmEnabling the next generation of devices to incorporate efficient, private edge AI.
2024–25Head of AI Software · SynapticsLed the AI software that makes Synaptics' edge silicon easy to build on: a developer framework composed into an on-device voice assistant that headlined CES 2025 and won new designs.
2021–23VP of Developers · READY RoboticsEnabled rapid software integration with major industrial robot brands, including an AI plugin and ML based predictive maintenance.
2017–21VP Business Development · ArduinoLaunched Arduino's first on-device machine-learning library with Google, seeding Harvard's edX TinyML course.
2006–17CPU Product Manager → Director, IoT Segment · ArmTook the entry-level Cortex-M processors from concept to global launch, now in billions of devices, then drove Arm into IoT and the startup ecosystem alongside Raspberry Pi and Arduino.

Chart of Arm chip shipments growth since 1995 — Arm chip shipments. Source: Arm via AnandTech.

The Arm Cortex-M0 on the edge of a coin, one of Arm's smallest, lowest-power processors — Arm's smallest, lowest-power processor.

Coverage

Independent press, publications, and talks covering my work.

Apr 2026ACM EdgeSys · Hybrid AI: Rethinking Where Intelligence Lives (invited speaker)My keynote on how agentic AI is moving inference closer to the edge, at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
May 2026The Economist · AI Compute Summit (invited speaker)Invited to speak on the future of AI compute.
Mar 2025Embedded World · Contextual AI and on-device assistants (paper presentation on behalf of Synaptics)Presented on building efficient, context-aware AI assistants that run on-device.
Apr 2024Hackaday · The BBC Micro, Lovingly Simulated In VRFeatured for recreating the BBC Micro in mixed reality (WebXR), showcased in the Meta Quest browser.
Aug 2023Robotics 24/7 · Building a robotics plugin for ChatGPTUsing LLM tool calling to control industrial robots.
Jan 2022Harvard Data Science Review · Widening Access to Applied Machine Learning with TinyMLThe Arduino + Google kit I led became the basis of Harvard's edX TinyML course.
May 2021Make: · Exploring the Microverse: ML on MicrocontrollersInterviewed on ethics and machine learning.
Nov 2020Gizmodo · This BBC Micro Emulator Takes You BackInterviewed and featured for reviving the BBC Micro on the web with Owlet editor created with Matt Godbolt.
Mar 2020IEEE Spectrum · Show the World You Can Write a Cool Program Inside a Single TweetInterviewed about the BBC Micro Bot, the first bot to execute tweets on an emulated machine. It ran over 10,000 user submitted programs drawing over 10 million impressions.
Oct 2019TensorFlow Blog · How to Get Started with Machine Learning on ArduinoLaunched Arduino's first on-device ML library, with Google.
Jun 2015University of Cambridge · The unforeseen evolution of an ARM verification projectOverview of the Leeds–Cambridge ARM verification project including my work modelling the ARM ISA.
May 2015ZDNet · All the fun of the Maker FaireInterviewed on bringing rapid prototypes to production.
May 2015MakerCon · MakerCon: Dominic Pajak (Presentation)Presented on Arm innovation in emerging applications.
May 2014ARM · ARM at Maker Faire Bay Area 2014Led Arm's exhibit of connected device partners at Maker Faire, including Raspberry Pi and Arduino.
Apr 2014IEEE Internet of Things Journal · Communicating Power Supplies (with Berkeley Lab)Joint project on bringing the internet to low-power electronic devices.
Dec 2009New Electronics · Cortex-M0 is Arm's fastest-licensing processorCortex-M0 became Arm's fastest-licensing processor.
Feb 2009Engadget · Cortex-M0: smallest, lowest power ARM processor availableTook Arm's Cortex-M0 from concept to launch, now in billions of devices.
Mar 2009Electronics Weekly · ARM's Cortex-M0 processor: how it worksExplained the Cortex-M0, Arm's lowest-power processor, as its product manager.
Jun 2005University of Leeds · Specification of microprocessor instruction set architecturesPhD thesis.

Builds

I've seen first hand that vast scale is possible if you inspire people with the potential of technology, and empower them to create.
Technology keeps moving forward; as an industry we have to be life-long learners, and teachers.

Reachy Mini robot running on-device voice-to-voice AI on a Raspberry Pi 5

Dec 2025

Embodied AI

Beta testing Reachy Mini with on-device AI — an on-device AI app for Hugging Face / Pollen Robotics' Reachy Mini, with voice-to-voice reactions running entirely on a Raspberry Pi 5.

An agentic AI loop running locally on an Arm-based Raspberry Pi 5

Sep 2025

Edge Agentic AI

An agentic AI loop running 100% locally on an Arm-based Raspberry Pi 5: voice to plan to act to observe to summarise to speak to remember.

A multi-modal on-device AI assistant using an on-chip NPU for vision

Jan 2025

Multimodal AI

Demonstrated at CES 2025, a multi-modal on-device voice assistant that can see, using an on-chip NPU to accelerate vision, with the agent accessing it via tool calling.

Apr 2024

Mixed Reality

Virtual Beeb is a free computer simulation in a webpage, still serving 5K monthly active users. Now ported to mixed-reality using WebXR, you can experience it today on Meta Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro. You can also read the Making of... blog!

Dec 2023

Generative Virtual Worlds

Imagine conjuring any object into existence on command. In the VoxelAstra project I combined OpenAI Whisper, GPT-4 and three.js to create a mixed-reality experience that let you do just that. Built over the holidays, it was mainly just tested with snowmen.

Jul 2023

Robotics

This project for READY Robotics used live motor torque data from a Universal Robots UR5 cobot for training and inference of predictive-maintenance AI. As well as integrating this flow end-to-end, I built a live dashboard and 3D visualization.

BBC Micro Bot: running a tweet of BASIC on an emulated BBC Micro

Feb 2020

Social Media Bots

BBC Micro Bot took geek Twitter by storm, as people pushed the limits of possibility within one tweet of retro code. The bot I built on AWS served thousands of users, who between them submitted over 10,000 programs and gained over 10 million impressions. Now on Mastodon.

Arduino detecting fruit variety and ripeness with on-device machine learning

Nov 2019

On-device ML

At Arduino I used color and proximity sensor data with on-device ML to detect fruit variety and ripeness. The accompanying blog I wrote is featured in the TensorFlow Blog.

Loading a retro cassette game into an emulator with PlayUEF

Nov 2017

Web App

PlayUEF is a JavaScript web app that loads classic Acorn and BBC cassette games into an emulator, or a real 8-bit machine, straight from the browser.

Home Computers collectable trump-card deck of 8-bit machines

Nov 2015

Crowd Funding

Home Computers was funded on Kickstarter at over 10× its goal, this collectable card deck celebrates the 8-bit machines that inspired a generation. Designs later donated to the Centre for Computing History, a STEM charity in Cambridge, UK.

This site

Go back and try the interactive Conway's Game of Life at the top of the page :)

"I learnt to program the BBC Micro at school. I certainly owe my career to that early start."
Dominic Pajak, IEEE Spectrum, 2020

Dominic Pajak

Biography