Summary
Robin Champenois is a freelance research engineer and PhD-trained research-creation practitioner based in Nantes with 11 years of experience at the crossroads of computer vision, AI and the arts. He builds and maintains research web platforms (notably Visual Contagions Explore at Université de Genève) and has a track record of internships and research roles at Google, Inria, DTU and ENS focused on deep learning, vision and embodied cognition. His work reframes AI as an “artificial unconscious,” blending technical depth with art history, cognitive science and psychoanalysis to surface poetic and critical readings of neural networks. Equally at home writing models and crafting installations, he seeks to expose the biases and narratives hidden inside complex systems rather than merely optimize their outputs.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Diplôme de l'École normale supérieure, Informatique, Diplôme de l'École normale supérieure, Informatique at Ecole normale supérieure
Master 2 (M2), Mathématiques, vision et apprentissage, Mention très bien, Master 2 (M2), Mathématiques, vision et apprentissage, Mention très bien at ENS Paris-Saclay
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Research-creation, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Research-creation at École normale supérieure
Institut de Technologie et d'Innovation, Innovation, recherche et entrepreunariat, Institut de Technologie et d'Innovation, Innovation, recherche et entrepreunariat at Université PSL
French, English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, danois, German