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Ghislain Delabie

AI engineer building data infrastructure for mobility, science, media and energy — 18 years in mobility product, now leading AI Solutions at Alien Intelligence.

Chambéry, France·ghislain@alien.club·GitHub·LinkedIn

Experience

  1. 2023 – ongoing

    Head of AI Solutions

    Alien Intelligence

    Building the data infrastructure that connects AI agents to premium knowledge sources. Principal case studies:

    • OpenAIRE MCP — exposing 150M+ scientific publications, datasets and software records to AI agents via the Model Context Protocol.
    • Gallica / BnF — three-year partnership with the Bibliothèque nationale de France to make digitised heritage consumable by AI agents on the library's terms (the "diffuseur" model).
    • LDS / Copyfair — European Data Reservation Layer: contract-first data infrastructure preserving copyright and provenance when AI agents ingest rights-holders' content.
  2. 2025 – ongoing

    Data & AI expert — Mobility & Transportation

    La Fabrique des Mobilités

    Independent contractor delivering thematic workshops, webinars and technical expertise on mobility data and AI projects. Continuing the 30 LEV / 30 VELI programme (ADEME-backed field trial, 2023–2026) and standards-level work on MaaS and mobility data.

  3. 2024 – ongoing

    Board Advisor

    Moovance

    Advisor on business development and public-sector product strategy. Leading B2G business development, stakeholder engagement, and Product Ownership of the B2G offering — roadmap, feature prioritisation, pilot supervision.

  4. 2021 – 2024

    Project Director — Mobility & Transportation

    La Fabrique des Mobilités

    Managed open-innovation programmes for sustainable mobility. Mentored a cross-functional team of five project leads and senior experts. Designed and piloted green-mobility projects with government agencies, operators, startups and NGOs — securing stakeholder buy-in, managing implementation, measuring impact.

    • moB — Mon Compte Mobilité (2021–2024): mobility/standards expert, then project director, then product owner. Platform coordinated public/private mobility services and incentives; closed January 2025 after ADEME / DGITM funding ended.
    • MaaS open standards (2021–2025): multi-year programme defining national open standards, data flows and business models for Mobility-as-a-Service in France. Barometers, working groups, roadmaps.
  5. 2018 – 2021

    CEO & Cofounder

    Manwë

    Founded and ran a consulting firm specialised in integrated multimodal-mobility services for urban-development projects.

  6. 2015 – 2021

    Connector & Project Manager

    Ouishare

    Led collaborative projects on digital services and sustainable mobility. Co-created projects with cities, corporates, startups and NGOs to improve urban accessibility and reduce environmental impact.

  7. 2014 – 2015

    Project Director — Consulting

    Techneo

    Built a new consulting line on low-carbon mobility.

  8. 2012 – 2014

    Innovation Director

    Deways

    Led innovation projects with PSA, La Poste and Renault.

Education

  1. 2008 – 2010

    MBA, Business Administration

    ESSEC Business School, Paris

  2. 2007 – 2008

    MSc, Communication Systems & Signal Processing

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

  3. 2004 – 2008

    Engineering Degree — Computer Science · Telecommunications · Signal Processing

    Télécom Bretagne (now IMT Atlantique), Brest

Skills

AI engineering
Model Context Protocol (MCP) server design and deployment · LLMs, autonomous agents · retrieval and data-contract patterns · prompt engineering with voice/tone preservation · AI code-review + security-review pipelines · Python, Pandas, scikit-learn.
Data infrastructure
Open-standards design (MaaS, mobility data) · open-source stack selection and integration · telematics pipelines (MQTT → TimescaleDB → API) · data-viz (Python, notebooks, dashboards).
Product + programme direction
Multi-stakeholder coordination (public + private) · governance design (open consortia, EU policy frameworks) · budget and KPI negotiation with public funders (ADEME, DGITM, DGEC).
Policy + standards
France Nation Verte digital / data roadmap · EU Data Reservation Layer consortium · AI copyright infrastructure (Copyfair).

Selected work

  • Case studies — six in-depth pieces on the projects above.
  • Repositories — OpenClassrooms AI Engineering coursework, personal technical projects, AI-enhanced professional repos.
  • Publications — reports, talks, webinars.

Speaking

Public talks and webinars at the intersection of AI, mobility and open science — DSS26 (Madrid), Tech & Fest (Grenoble), GFII and others. See Publications for the catalogue.

Credentials & affiliations

  • AFNOR — contributor to mobility standards working groups.
  • ESTACA — teaching assignments, see Teaching.
  • Challenges Top 100 — industry recognition.
  • GFII — speaking engagements on AI and information-industry topics.

Languages

  • French — native
  • English — fluent (C2)
  • German — intermediate (B2)

Contact

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