Remi Tachet des Combes  is using the Purpose Futures Fellowship to incubate Good Energy, a Benefit Corporation that enables communities to finance, build, own, and manage neighborhood-scale solar microgrids. Good Energy provides microgrid system technology, project finance (through a social investment fund), and legal support, so that neighborhood groups can set up a locally controlled Purpose Trust to manage the shared asset. 

Remi Tachet des Combes is a mathematician, computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is currently a researcher at Microsoft Research Montreal, working in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning. There, he develops and studies novel algorithms from empirical and theoretical perspectives, and aims to leverage machine intelligence to solve the deepest scientific problems we currently face. He has published several papers in peer-review journals and conferences. He is also involved in various initiatives throughout the company to quantify and mitigate the significant environmental impact of AI.

Prior to Microsoft Research, Remi co-founded and served as CTO of AceUp, a talent management platform that provides personalized executive coaching with highly-curated experts through a tech-enabled scalable and measurable framework. He is still involved in AceUp as an advisor to its current CTO. From 2013 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, in the Senseable City Lab of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. At MIT, he studied the potential impact of future technologies, such as self-driving cars or ride-sharing applications, on the urban landscape. 

Remi holds a PhD in applied mathematics from the Ecole Centrale Paris, in the field of mathematical finance. He graduated from the Ecole Normale Superieure of Paris and received a Master of Mathematics from the University Paris VI.

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