Joelle Pineau

Chief AI Officer (since Aug 2025) — Cohere

BASc from U. Waterloo; PhD in Robotics from CMU. Professor at McGill University (Reasoning and Learning Lab). Global VP of Fundamental AI Research at Meta FAIR, helping guide early Llama development. Championed reproducibility in ML — introduced the NeurIPS reproducibility checklist (2019). Royal Society of Canada Fellow (2023). Joined Cohere as Chief AI Officer in August 2025.

Affiliations

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Cohere — Chief AI Officer (since Aug 2025)
Formerly: Meta FAIR (VP of AI Research, ~8 years); McGill University (Professor)

News Mentions

2025-08-14 Cohere Hires Long-Time Meta Research Head Joelle Pineau as Chief AI Officer TechCrunch — Cohere