I was born in Paris, France and got my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mathematics & Physics from Ecole Polytechnique in France and Imperial College London in the UK. Then, I went to INRIA for my PhD under the supervision of Xavier Pennec and to Stanford for my postdoc under the mentorship of Susan Holmes. I have worked in early stage startups in the Bay Area, California, including Caption Health and Atmo. My path to academia began unconventionally as an officer in the French Army. Some professional highlights below. Download PDF copy of my CV.

Education

2018–2020   Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Statistics at Stanford   (U.S.)

Advised by Susan Holmes

✦ Inria Silicon Valley Postdoctoral Fellowship (ranked 1st)

✦ Stanford's CONNECT award

✦ 1st Prize ($100,000) in the C3.ai Covid-19 Grand Challenge

2013–2016   Ph.D. in Geometric Statistics at Inria with co-supervision at Stanford   (France, U.S.)

Advised by Xavier Pennec, Co-Supervised by Susan Holmes

✦ France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Fellowship (ranked 1st)

✦ Inria S-Cordi National Fellowship (ranked 1st)

✦ 1st Prize at MICCAI Educational Challenge, MIT, Boston

✦ L'Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science National Prize (ranked 1st computer scientist)

2012–2013   MSc. in Mathematical Physics at Imperial College London   (U.K.)

2010–2012   BSc. and MSc. in Mathematics and Physics at Ecole Polytechnique   (France)

2008–2009   Classes Préparatoires in Mathematics at Ecole Sainte Genevieve (Ginette)   (France)

Work Experience

Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara (UCSB)   —   2021 - present

–  Director and Principal Investigator, Geometric Intelligence Lab: Lead team of 16 researchers

–  Co-Director of the REAL AI for Science Initiative at UCSB

–  Co-Director of the AI Core of the Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative

–  ✦ A $45M endowed center with $10M dedicated to the AI Core under my co-direction

Research Software Engineer, Atmo, San Francisco   —   2020 - 2021

–  Built large-scale machine learning models and infrastructure in AI for science.

Software Engineer, Caption Health, San Francisco   —   2017 - 2018

–  Built AI-guided ultrasound probe for cardiac imaging.

–  ✦ Delivered Nation’s 1st FDA-cleared AI-guided medical device

Selected HOnors & AWARDS

✦ Named to TIME’s Best Inventions for HerBrain: digital twin of the brain across pregnancy (2025).

✦ Public Voice Fellow of the OpEd project (2025).

✦ Hellman Fellow (2024).

✦ NSF CAREER Award (2023).

✦ UC Regent’s Junior Faculty Award at UC Santa Barbara (2022).

✦ 1st computer scientist, L’Oréal–UNESCO For Women in Science National Prize (2016).

✦ 1st Prize ($100,000) in the C3.ai Covid-19 Grand Challenge.

Selected Professional Activities

I co-founded the NeurReps workshop at NeurIPS (4 annual editions, 300–500 in-person attendees each year), organized 6 international workshops at top AI/ML venues, served as reviewer, grant panelist, member of scientific committees, and have served on multiple ECE department committees at UCSB.

Conference & Workshop Organization

  1. Co-founder and lead senior organizer, NeurIPS NeurReps Workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations (2022-2026) — 160+ accepted submissions and 300–500 in-person attendees each year, and 20+ invited speakers across the four editions. Looking forward to the 5th in December!

  2. Co-organizer, NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Bridging Optimal Transport, Learning and Structured Data: Toward Geometric Distributional Learning.

  3. Organizer, WIDS 2025 Datathon in partnership with Kaggle, Global & University Editions — 6,000+ participants from 99 countries.

  4. Co-organizer, CVPR 2024 Workshop on Topological Deep Learning for Computer Vision.

  5. Lead co-organizer, BIRS 2023 Workshop on Mathematical Methods for Morphological Shapes across Biological Scales.

  6. Lead co-organizer, MICCAI 2022 Workshop on Topological Data Analysis and its Applications for Medical Data.

  7. Lead organizer, ICLR 2022 Workshop on Geometrical and Topological Representation Learning.

  8. Lead senior organizer of 6 AI/ML international challenges (2021-2026).

Department & University Service

  1. Chair, ECE Public Relations Committee (2025–present).

  2. Member, ECE Grants Strategy Committee (2025–present).

  3. Member, ECE Seminars Committee (2022–2024).

  4. Member, ECE Graduate Admissions (2021–2023).

  5. Undergraduate Advisor, ECE (2021–2022).

Industry Advising & Consulting

  1. Advisor, Atmo, Inc. (2021–present).

  2. Advisor and Consultant, New Theory, Inc. (2024–present).

  3. Consultant, Los Angeles Dodgers (2025).

  4. Consultant, CaranX (2022–2024).

SELECTED Outreach

I count eight years of public science communication (2017–present) reaching K–12 students, teachers, and general audiences.

  1. Lead organizer, REAL AI for Science public lecture series — weekly in San Francisco (2017–2020), quarterly in Santa Barbara (2022–2025); 8 years of continuous public science communication.

  2. Co-organizer of K–12 outreach events at UCSB for middle schoolers (De Anza Academy GRIT), high schoolers (St Therese Academy), and science teachers (MRL Workshop) — 90+ students and teachers reached (2023–2024).

  3. Outreach speaker, Lower East Side Girls Club, New York City (2024).

  4. Invited to give 7 outreach talks for UCSB (see Talks section).

  5. Ambassador, L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science (2022–present).