Gilles Hacheme
Board Member -- Non Executive Director at Ai4Innov
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolGilles Hacheme is an AI researcher and board-level strategist with eight years of experience translating geospatial computer vision and multilingual NLP into tangible social impact across Africa. Currently a Senior Applied Research Scientist at Microsoft and a Non‑Executive Director at Lanfrica Labs, he builds scalable GeoAI solutions for climate, agriculture, urban planning and access to justice. He co-founded GeoAI-Africa and Ai4Innov to democratize AI capacity locally, leading projects that adapt LLMs, speech models, and diffusion models for African languages and cultural contexts. His background combines a PhD in Econometrics with hands-on ML engineering—authoring GeoVision Labeler and deploying cropland/irrigation mapping with partners like The Nature Conservancy and FAO. Comfortable at the intersection of research, product and policy, he brings both technical depth and governance experience to mission-driven technology initiatives. A less obvious strength: he consistently combines rigorous econometric training with systems engineering to deliver practical, resource-constrained AI solutions.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Magistère Ingénieur Économiste , Data science, Big data, Magistère Ingénieur Économiste , Data science, Big data at Aix-Marseille School of EconomicsDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Econometrics and Quantitative Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Econometrics and Quantitative Economics at Aix-Marseille UniversityDiplôme de technicien supérieur , Statistiques option économie appliquée, Diplôme de technicien supérieur , Statistiques option économie appliquée at ENEAM
French, English, fon
Github Skills (11)
turkish2
fact-checking2
nlp2
python2
time-series1
multilingual1
econometrics1
arabic-nlp1
jupyter1
natural-language-processing1
question-answering1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Abdoul-AI/InFashAIv2
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:13 commits in 2 days
hgilles06/infashai
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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