CEO/Co-Founder, Contextual AI
Douwe Kiela
CEO/Co-Founder | Contextual AI
About Douwe
Douwe Kiela is a Dutch-American research scientist and entrepreneur specializing in artificial intelligence, with particular expertise in machine learning and natural language processing. He is currently a research scientist director at Google DeepMind. Kiela previously co-founded and served as CEO of Contextual AI, an enterprise software company that develops a platform for creating grounded AI agents tailored to enterprise knowledge bases. His career includes leading the research team at Meta AI, where he contributed to the development of the retrieval-augmented generation approach in 2020 and co-authored the foundational paper titled 'Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks.' Kiela has also served as Head of Research at Hugging Face and maintains an academic appointment as an adjunct professor in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University.
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Making Data Simple
Unlocking the Power of AI & Data: Expert Insights from Douwe Kiela, CEO of Contextual.ai
Oct 15, 2025
Generative AI in the Real World
Douwe Kiela on Why RAG Isn’t Dead
Sep 15, 2025
(AI) People
(AI) People Podcast - Contextual AI - Douwe Kiela with VenorTech
Jul 9, 2025
Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
Ep 43: CEO/Co-Founder of Contextual AI Douwe Kiela Reaction to o1, What’s Next in Reasoning and Innovations in Post-Training
Sep 18, 2024
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
Multimodal, Multi-Lingual NLP at Hugging Face with John Bohannon and Douwe Kiela - #589
Aug 29, 2022
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
Multimodal, Multi-Lingual NLP at Hugging Face with John Bohannon and Douwe Kiela
Aug 29, 2022
NLP Highlights
128 - Dynamic Benchmarking, with Douwe Kiela
Jun 19, 2021
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