Basile Verhulst
Policy Shaper For Industry at Volt Europa
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolBasile Verhulst is a policy-focused technologist and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience bridging machine learning, Web3 analytics, and European industrial strategy. As Policy Shaper for Industry at Volt Europa and editor-in-chief of a newsletter on EU industrial policy, he crafts frameworks for digital sovereignty across AI, semiconductors, aerospace and critical raw materials. He founded and exited a Web3 data-labels startup (chainlabs) and earlier built ML-driven products and datasets for anti-money laundering and lost-fund recovery. Trained in robotics at ETH Zürich and UC Berkeley, he combines rigorous technical depth with practical product delivery in startups and consulting. A polyglot traveler who cycled 18,000 km from France to China, he brings uncommon cultural insight to geopolitics and tech policy. Basile invests in seed-stage AI/ML, SaaS, telecom and Web3 companies, blending operator experience with strategic policy influence.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Researcher, Robotics, Visiting Researcher, Robotics at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Robotics at ETH ZürichOption Internationale du Baccalauréat (O.I.B), Scientifique, Option Internationale du Baccalauréat (O.I.B), Scientifique at Lycée International de Saint Germain en Laye
English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (52)
bots10
named-entity-recognition9
language-processing9
text-classification9
google-assistant9
natural-language-processing9
spacy9
voice9
dialogue-systems9
chatbot9
cython9
turkish9
conversations9
nlp9
bot-framework9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
maxsong123/aiahackathaon
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
Skyba/safuhack
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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