Full Name

Aurélien Rodriguez

Job Title

Director of Foundation Model Training

Company

Cohere

Speaker Bio

Aurélien Rodriguez is Director of Foundations at Cohere. Aurelien Rodriguez was trained as an academic mathematician, specialized in Arithmetic Geometry, and was in academia until 2018. He then shifted his focus onto AI, and created an AI centric private lab before joining Meta's FAIR at the end of 2021 where he led projects pertaining to the relationship between AI and Mathematics before becoming the lead of the Llama team in Europe. He joined Cohere a year ago to lead the foundation model effort.