Jean-Baptiste Guignard

Founder | Industry Director & Strategist

Greater Bordeaux Metropolitan Area

About

Experience

  • Visiting Director at Northwestern University
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    Industry Liaison

  • Wild Card at Institute for Future Technologies - IFT
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    Creative Tech & Entrepreneurship

  • Qualcomm (Permanent · 4 yrs 5 mos)
    • Managing Director
      Mar 2025 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Perception Algorithms _ lead of the input teams with a focus on Low Power Eye-Tracking, Hand-Tracking & ML models for digital interaction (including "data", HW acquisition set-up(s) & machinery). Premium Contents _ creative lead of the showcasing effort, coordinating System, Engineering, Marketing & Product teams in IND, US, EU & Asia. Ideation & e2e execution.

    • Director | Engineering
      Nov 2021 - Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      _Owner of XR Inputs FR, US, CA, CN, IND. _Android XR & OEM/ODMs Perception Lead _Site Lead, FR _Inventor (17 IDFs & patents) _Academic Partnership _Qualcomm Foundation, FR [Tech, Inclusion, Social Affairs]

  • Université PSL (5 yrs 1 mo)
    • Tenured Researcher
      Jun 2018 - Jun 2022 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Research topics | PhD supervision — Cognitive Science, Engineering & Epistemology of ML/CV. Dataset Generation, Hand Tracking, Gesture Recognition.

    • Fellow of the IHEIE
      Jun 2017 - Jun 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Institut des Hautes Études pour l’Innovation et l’Entreprenariat.

  • Founder at Clay AIR
    Sep 2014 - Nov 2021 · 7 yrs 3 mos

    [Acquired by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.] Clay AIR is a hardware-agnostic Computer Vision bundle with leading-edge performance. While the company's western Business Office is located in Los Angeles [Westwood, CA], Clay AIR's Europe HQ and R&D Center are respectively located in Paris [Champs Elysées] and Bordeaux [Intendance]. The more recent eastern BU is located in Shanghai [Changning District].