Summary
Renaud Delbru is a Ph.D.-trained technology leader and co-founder who has spent 14+ years building web-scale semantic search and knowledge graph platforms, currently serving as Chief Scientific Officer at Siren. He pioneered Sindice.com and the SIREn search engine, blending deep research in semistructured data, graph summarization and ranking with pragmatic engineering for production-scale knowledge graphs. His team won Yahoo’s 2011 Entity Search challenge, and he has authored a dozen+ academic papers that influenced semantic search and low-level index encoding techniques. Renaud bridges academia and industry—moving from a Ph.D. thesis on entity retrieval to leading R&D and product engineering as CTO and CSO. Based in Talence, France, he combines cognitive-science-informed design with systems-level optimization, often surfacing novel interaction paradigms for complex graph data. Pragmatic, research-led, and product-focused, he excels at turning cutting-edge semantic technologies into scalable customer solutions.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Ecole pour I'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at National University of Ireland, Galway
English, French