Douwe Kiela is the CEO and Co-Founder of Contextual AI. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. Previously, he was the Head of Research at Hugging Face and a Research Lead at Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team, where he pioneered Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) among other key AI breakthroughs. His work in multimodality, alignment, and evaluation has set new standards in the field of AI and has made systems safer, more reliable, and more accurate.