Summary
Guillaume Bouchard is an entrepreneur and AI researcher who co-founded and leads Checkstep, a London-based Trust & Safety platform that applies AI to moderate user-generated content at scale. He previously co-founded Bloomsbury AI and led its acquisition by Facebook to tackle misinformation, then headed Facebook’s London AI Integrity team and organised the first Truth and Trust Online conference. With a PhD in applied mathematics and over a decade of research at INRIA, Xerox and UCL, he has authored 60+ publications and holds 50+ US patents spanning large-scale predictive models, text understanding and distributed AI. Comfortable at the intersection of deep research and productisation, he also advises and invests across AI startups, bringing rare experience turning cutting-edge NLP into deployed systems.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Mathematics, Master's degree Mathematics at Université de Rouen
Master's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Institut National des Sciences Appliquées
PhD Applied Mathematics, PhD Applied Mathematics at Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)
English, French