Douwe Kiela
CEO Co-Founder at Contextual AI
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDouwe Kiela is a research leader and entrepreneur with a decade of experience at the intersection of machine learning research and product-focused AI. He currently leads research at Google DeepMind and serves as an adjunct professor at Stanford, after founding and scaling a startup and heading research at Hugging Face. His trajectory spans industry research roles at Meta/Facebook AI Research, high-impact internships at Microsoft Research, and a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge, reflecting deep expertise in foundational ML. Douwe combines academic rigor with operational experience—from publishing and teaching to CEO responsibilities—making him adept at turning research into deployable systems. Based in Mountain View, he pairs theoretical depth in logic and computer science with practical engineering instincts honed since founding a digital agency and working on applied R&D projects. Colleagues note his rare ability to bridge long-term scientific vision with the hands-on execution needed to ship AI products.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of CambridgeBSc Liberal Arts & Sciences, BSc Liberal Arts & Sciences at Utrecht UniversityMSc (cum laude) Logic, MSc (cum laude) Logic at University of AmsterdamStedelijk Gymnasium Leiden
Github Skills (80)
transformers10
benchmark10
language-model10
sentence10
python10
dialog10
flax10
datasets10
deep-learning10
gpu10
gpu-acceleration10
recall10
acceleration10
multimodal10
numpy10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
douwekiela/douwekiela.github.io
May 2018 - Sep 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
douwekiela/mmfeat
Mar 2016 - Nov 2016
Multi-modal features toolkit in Python
Contributions:65 commits, 7 PRs, 40 pushes in 7 months
dtwmulti-modalpythonmodal
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