Founder and CEO of Rimward. FG co-founded Pyronear, an open-source nonprofit, helping turn a Raspberry Pi, his laptop GPU and entry-level camera into a wildfire detection network across Europe and South America. Running AI locally on affordable hardware, it serves French fire services and detected a wildfire 32 km away. A computer vision researcher by background, he led research at Mindee (YC W21), published conference papers without a PhD and was formerly a top PyTorch contributor.

François-Guillaume Fernandez

MSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from CentraleSupélec; former ML research lead at Mindee (YC W21); top PyTorch contributor; co-founded Pyronear, an NGO using deep learning for wildfire detection. YC S23 founder.

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