Louis-françois Bouchard
Co-founder & CTO at YouTube - What's AI
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolLouis-François Bouchard is a Montreal-based AI entrepreneur and educator who co-founded and serves as CTO of Towards AI, building industry-focused AI courses and consulting to bridge the gap between academia and real-world engineering. A former Mila and Polytechnique PhD candidate who left academia to focus on practical AI education, he creates weekly multimedia content—YouTube, podcast, newsletter—to demystify AI for broad audiences while highlighting its benefits and risks. He combines hands-on product and team-building experience from startups and roles as Head of AI and computer vision engineer with instructional work for O'Reilly, making complex research accessible and actionable. Known publicly as "What's AI," he mixes neuroscience, philosophy and practical nutrition insights into his teaching, and runs a community-driven Discord now integrated into Towards AI.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Candidate, Researcher, PhD Candidate, Researcher at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence InstituteMaster's degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence at École de technologie supérieurePhD Candidate, Researcher, PhD Candidate, Researcher at Polytechnique Montréal
French, English
Github Skills (71)
python10
deep-learning10
computer-science10
background-image10
youtube10
ai10
paper10
computer-vision10
background-subtraction10
artificial-intelligence10
data-science10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
depth10
linear-algebra10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
louisfb01/best_AI_papers_2021
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
A curated list of the latest breakthroughs in AI (in 2021) by release date with a clear video explanation, link to a more in-depth article, and code.
Contributions:34 commits, 21 pushes in 1 year
pythonstate-of-the-artartificialintelligencecomputer-sciencelink
louisfb01/start-machine-learning
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
A complete guide to start and improve in machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI) in 2025 without ANY background in the field and stay up-to-date with the latest news and state-of-the-art techniques!
Contributions:71 commits, 7 PRs, 88 pushes in 2 years 3 months
coursera-machine-learningread-articlespythonstate-of-the-artyoutube
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