Lionel Kusch
Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer at Yneuro
France
Summary
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Top SchoolLionel Kusch is a Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer based in France with a decade of experience at the nexus of neuroscience and AI. He earned deep technical and research chops during a PhD on co-simulating macro- and meso-scale neural circuits as part of the Human Brain Project and has since translated that expertise into production-focused R&D and infrastructure work at Inria and Yneuro. Lionel contributes to scientific open-source projects—fixing C++ bugs and improving the NEST neural simulator—and builds tools like the HiDimStat library to support advanced neural data analysis. He brings a rare combination of hands-on systems development, neurobiological modeling, and ethical curiosity about brain–machine interfaces, driving practical deployments of neuro-biometric authentication. Colleagues know him for bridging rigorous research with maintainable engineering and for advocating doctoral and early-career researchers through representative roles.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
lycée pierre paul riquetSuperior National School of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science - Institute of Technology (INP)KTH Royal Institute of Technologystudy scientist, rank: 17/95, study scientist, rank: 17/95 at CPP- La prépa des INPPhD candidate in Biology, Neuroscience, PhD candidate in Biology, Neuroscience at Ecole Doctorale Sciences de la vie et de la santé
French, English, Spanish, Swedish
Github Skills (10)
mpi10
nest-simulator10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
nest10
tool-kit9
simulator9
simulations9
simulation9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nest/nest-simulator
Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
The NEST simulator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 69 commits, 40 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Lionel primarily contributed to fixing syntax errors and resolving bugs in the C++ code of the NEST simulator, specifically within the `nestkernel` directory, including input and recording backends. They also added documentation and fixed comments to enhance the code readability. The user also modified step current generator and spike generator to update the functions of these tools.
cppnest-simulatorpythonsimulationneurons
mind-inria/hidimstat
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
HiDimStat: High-dimensional statistical inference tool for Python
Contributions:269 reviews, 54 PRs, 21 pushes in 4 months
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