Dr. Justin E. Lane is the CEO and Co-Founder of CulturePulse AI, a US–Slovak company specializing in social AI and digital twin technology. For the past decade, he has developed AI systems to understand and predict social cohesion, hybrid threats, policy risk, and crisis dynamics. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford.
Dr. Lane has held academic positions in the US, UK, Czech Republic, and Singapore. He is currently affiliated with the Slovak Academy of Science and serves as Scientific Director at the DEKK Institute in Bratislava. His work has been featured in WIRED, BBC, The New York Times, Vice News, New Scientist, The Atlantic, and on the Joe Rogan Experience.
Author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications, his book Understanding Religion through Artificial Intelligence: Bonding and Belief was nominated for the 2023 ISSR Book Prize. Together with his co-founder Prof. Dr. LeRon Shults, he has helped secure over US$110 million in grants and investment funding.