Neil Zeghidour
Chief Executive Officer at Gradium
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Zeghidour is an AI research leader and founder with eight years of experience bridging cutting-edge speech and audio modeling research and product-driven startup leadership. After a research trajectory from Facebook AI Research through multiple roles at Google Brain—where he led audio LLM work—he cofounded Kyutai as Chief Modeling Officer before becoming CEO of Gradium. His background combines a PhD in machine learning from ENS, deep expertise in weakly supervised speech representation, and hands-on modeling experience that spans research publications and applied AI. Based in Paris, he blends academic rigor with entrepreneurial execution, often moving ideas from prototype to company-scale products. An understated thread in his career is longtime interest in quantitative methods—from earlier quant research to implementing neural nets from scratch—which powers his practical approach to ML system design.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science Machine Learning at Ecole normale supérieureMaster MVA Mathematiques-Vision-Apprentissage, Master MVA Mathematiques-Vision-Apprentissage at ENS Paris-SaclayMsc in Applied Mathematics With Honors, Msc in Applied Mathematics With Honors at Université Paris Dauphine - PSL
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (34)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
data-science9
ml9
deep-neural-networks9
ai9
neural-network9
speech9
google9
source-separation8
datasets7
conformer7
speech-recognition7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google-research/leaf-audio
Jan 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
facebookresearch/tdfbanks
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Pytorch implementation of time-domain filterbanks
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes in 13 days
pytorchdtwspectrogramdomaintime-domain
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