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
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Research-creation, PhD Research-creation at Ecole normale supérieure
Master 2 (M2) Mathématiques, Master 2 (M2) Mathématiques at ENS Paris-Saclay
X-Up Create startup incubator, X-Up Create startup incubator at École Polytechnique
Institut de Technologie et d'Innovation Innovation, Institut de Technologie et d'Innovation Innovation at PSL Research University
French, English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, danois, German