Team

Paris & Berkeley

PhDs and engineers from Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, Owkin, Datadog, UMass Chan Zuckerberg Medical School, Institut Pasteur, Polytechnique. Building foundation models for biology.

Founders

Cyril Veran

CEO

Serial entrepreneur at the intersection of AI and plant biology. Leads strategy, partnerships, and the company.

Leonard Strouk

CTO

Biochemist turned AI engineer, trained at École Normale Supérieure and UC Berkeley. Leads research and technology.

Bertrand Gakière

CSO

Associate Professor in Plant Biology, with 75+ publications and multiple trait patents. Leads the science.

Research team

Jean du Terrail

AI Research Lead

Ph.D. in Computer Vision. Previously Datadog AI Research, then Frontier Research Lead at Owkin.

Vincent Cabeli

Bio AI Lead

Ph.D. from Institut Curie. Previously Frontier Research at Owkin, applying AI to biology.

Alexey Rukhovich

AI Research Scientist

M.Sc. in Fundamental Mathematics. Previously LLM pre-training and interpretability at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab.

Amélie Barozet

Computational Biologist

Polytechnique, Ph.D. in Computational Biology with Sanofi. Previously at Microprep, applying AI to plant biology.

Jean-François Reboud

AI Research Engineer

Ensimag, author of the GrAIdient deep learning framework. Previously seven years of applied ML at Owkin and LLM post-training at Outgoing.

Gregory Andrews

Computational Biologist

Ph.D. and postdoc at UMass Chan Medical School. First author on the Zoonomia papers, mapping regulation across 240 mammalian genomes.

Zeinab Sheykhi

Bio AI Engineer

M.Sc. in NLP, previously at Lucid Genomics and Owkin. Incoming DPhil in Generative Biology at EIT Oxford with Leopold Parts.

Gary Klajer

AI Intern

B.Sc. in Mathematics from EPFL, MVA alumnus. Previously at Owkin, working on interpretability for medical imaging.

We're building something ambitious.

If you want to work at the intersection of AI and biology, we'd love to hear from you.

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