Guillaume Bouchard

CEO

London, England, United Kingdom13 yrs 11 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • CEO of Checkstep, leading AI-driven content moderation.
  • Expert in Trust and Safety with a focus on misinformation.
  • PhD in applied mathematics and machine learning.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert specializing in AI-driven content moderation and trust and safety solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning

Other Skills

Pattern RecognitionComputer VisionNatural Language ProcessingText MiningSoftware EngineeringImage ProcessingContent Moderation ToolAlgorithmsInformation RetrievalData MiningResearchSoftware DevelopmentMathematical ModelingLaTeXPython

About

CEO of Checkstep, a platform to manage User Generated Content with AI. Trust and Safety Expert, previously Co-founder and CEO of Bloomsbury AI, exited to Facebook in 2018, to reduce the prevalence of misinformation using AI. One of the main organisers of the first conference on Truth and Trust Online. PhD in applied mathematics and machine learning from INRIA, France. 12 years of scientific at Xerox Research and UCL, focusing on large-scale predictive models, text understanding and distributed AI techniques. Author of more than 60 international publications and holder of more than 50 U.S. patents.

Experience

13 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

12 yrs

Xerox Research Centre Europe

Present

Oxford foundry

Cohort 4

Apr 2021Oct 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · United Kingdom

  • High-profile accelerator with courses and mentorship from world-expert in entrepreneurship.
Text MiningArtificial Intelligence

Checkstep

2 roles

Co-Founder

Sep 2020Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

Pattern RecognitionComputer VisionNatural Language ProcessingText MiningArtificial Intelligence

Co-Founder and CEO of Checkstep

May 2020Present · 5 yrs 11 mos

  • Easy to integrate Content Moderation Automation software. Building a Trust and Safety platform enabling any online platforms to stay safe and compliant with this user-generated content.
Pattern RecognitionComputer VisionNatural Language ProcessingText MiningSoftware EngineeringArtificial Intelligence+2

London cognition

Advisor

Mar 2020Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Text Mining

Creopoint

Chairman of Technical Advisory Board

Mar 2020Jul 2020 · 4 mos · London

  • Chairman of CREOpoint advisory board. Strategic advice to the CEO, supervision of COVID-19 CREOpoint task force.
Pattern RecognitionText MiningArtificial Intelligence

Ai hopes limited

Director

Feb 2020Oct 2020 · 8 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Freelance advisory work on Machine learning, IP strategy and business development.
Pattern RecognitionComputer VisionNatural Language ProcessingText MiningArtificial Intelligence

Inflo.ai

Strategic Advisor and Investor

Jan 2020Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Machine Learning and IP advisor at Inflow.AI, the software company that re-invents professional writing.
Pattern RecognitionNatural Language ProcessingText MiningArtificial Intelligence

Consilience ventures

Expert Advisor and Investor

Dec 2019Nov 2025 · 5 yrs 11 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Actively helping Consilience Ventures to grow their expert network, raise money and identify investments.
Text Mining

Calipsa

Strategic Advisor

May 2019Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Help Calipsa to develop their AI algorithm, and IP protection.
Pattern RecognitionComputer VisionText MiningArtificial Intelligence

Cogmap

Strategic Advisor

Jan 2019Jun 2025 · 6 yrs 5 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Natural Language ProcessingText MiningArtificial Intelligence

Facebook

2 roles

Research Manager

Sep 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Following the acquisition of startup Bloomsbury AI, became head of London Facebook AI Integrity team, combating disinformation for the world's largest social media company.
  • Organised the first Truth and Trust Online (TTO) bringing together the main stakeholders in the development of solutions against misinformation.
Pattern RecognitionComputer VisionNatural Language ProcessingText MiningArtificial Intelligence

Research Manager

Aug 2018Sep 2018 · 1 mo

  • Creating a engineering team in London focusing on Societal AI problems that Facebook is facing.
Pattern RecognitionNatural Language ProcessingText MiningArtificial Intelligence

Bloomsbury ai

2 roles

CEO

Promoted

Apr 2016Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos · London, United Kingdom

  • Co-founded and spearheaded the growth of Bloomsbury AI. Created natural language processing technology to help machines answer questions based on information gleaned from documents. Facebook acquired the company, its technology and its team in 2018 to work on combating fake news and to tackle other content issues.
Pattern RecognitionNatural Language ProcessingText MiningArtificial Intelligence

Co-Founder and Director

Apr 2015Mar 2016 · 11 mos · London, United Kingdom

  • The potential of machine learning is massive but limited to be used by people who studied computer science or statistics. To enable more people to benefit from the capabilities of having a computer that can learns from data, I created with Sebastian Riedel and several researchers from UCL and UW the company Bloomsbury AI: the first company providing a Natural Language Programming system.
Pattern RecognitionNatural Language ProcessingText MiningArtificial Intelligence

University college london

Senior Researcher

Jun 2015Jun 2016 · 1 yr · Euston, London

  • I was working on Allen Distinguished Investigator grant awarded to Sebastian Riedel, trying to make computer able to answer science exam questions. This is core AI research, which involves a lot of machine learning, natural language processing and optimisation tools.
Pattern RecognitionNatural Language ProcessingText MiningArtificial Intelligence

Inria

PhD student

Jan 2001Jan 2004 · 3 yrs

  • Research in statistical machine learning and computer vision.
Pattern RecognitionComputer VisionNatural Language ProcessingArtificial Intelligence

Education

Institut National des Sciences Appliquées

Master's degree — Mathematics and Computer Science

Jan 1996Jan 2001

Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)

PhD — Applied Mathematics

Jan 2001Jan 2004

Université de Rouen

Master's degree — Mathematics

Jan 2000Jan 2001

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