Since he started at Ubisoft Montreal in 2004, Yves Jacquier filled many different positions related with the fast growth of the Studio : heading online Services, he then moves to develop the Production Services Studios in 2008 to make them the best of the industry by leading transformative activities such as Performance capture, biometrics or telemetry.

In addition, Yves developed Ubisoft’s academic R&D strategy with two significant milestones: the creation of a chair in Deep Learning in 2011 with Yoshua Bengio and the foundation in 2016 of the first Lab in the gaming industry dedicated to applied academic research: Ubisoft – La Forge, which he’s been leading since then as executive director.

Yves holds a PhD in High Energy physics and an high enthusiasm degree in guitar playing.