Jules Pondard
Founder & CEO at France-IOI
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolJules Pondard is a founder-CEO and former public technology leader with a decade of experience at the intersection of AI research, product strategy, and public administration. A graduate of ENS and HEC Paris now entering the Corps des Mines and pursuing a PhD in reinforcement learning, he has blended top-tier research internships (Mila, Facebook, Element AI) with hands-on transformation work inside French institutions like ACPR and Etalab, where he led generative AI and Suptech initiatives. He combines product-minded delivery—UX, lean/agile, and stakeholder integration—with deep technical competence in ML and computational mathematics. Jules has run growth and strategy work at Datadog, built crisis-scenario modelling for SNCF, and continues long-term volunteer commitment to France-IOI, signaling both entrepreneurial drive and civic dedication. Notably, his early research on unsupervised RL contributed to representation learning for planning and transfer, a thread that ties his academic and applied pursuits.
10 years of coding experience
MPSI - MP* Mathematics Physics and Computer Science, MPSI - MP* Mathematics Physics and Computer Science at Lycée Louis-le-GrandENS Paris-Saclay Master's degree Computational and Applied Mathematics, ENS Paris-Saclay Master's degree Computational and Applied Mathematics at École Normale Supérieure Paris-SaclayMaster of Business Administration - MBA Public Administration, Master of Business Administration - MBA Public Administration at Corps des MinesHigh School Baccalauréat S (specialty: mathematics), High School Baccalauréat S (specialty: mathematics) at École Internationale BilingueENS Paris Computer Science Mathematics Economics, ENS Paris Computer Science Mathematics Economics at Ecole normale supérieureMSc Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, MSc Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at HEC Paris
French, English
Github Skills (4)
reinforcement-learning9
pytorch8
machine-learning8
deep-learning7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Artix18/artix18.github.io
Nov 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
Artix18/miniscala
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:93 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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