Xavier Vasques
Vice President And CTO, IBM Technology, France And Director Of R&D, IBM France at Institut du Neurone
Montpellier, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolXavier Vasques is a technology executive and mathematician who serves as Vice President and CTO of IBM Technology France and Director of R&D for IBM France, leading multidisciplinary technical teams across Data & AI, Cloud, Systems and more. He combines two decades of industry leadership at IBM with deep academic credentials—a PhD in Neurosciences and advanced degrees in mathematical statistics and computer science—applying rigorous quantitative methods to product and research challenges. As head of the Institut du Neurone and a longtime contributor to high-impact neuroscience projects (including Blue Brain / Human Brain Project work at EPFL), he bridges academic research and industrial R&D to advance AI-driven understanding of brain diseases. Known for building and managing innovation labs, systems centers, and technical garages, he blends technical sales enablement with hands-on data science and engineering leadership. He has published extensively (>150 peer-reviewed communications), supervises PhD research, and brings an ethic-driven view that technology should serve people and the planet. Outside work he runs marathons and studies philosophy, reflecting a discipline for endurance and reflective problem-solving.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Neurosciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Neurosciences at University of MontpellierMaster of Science - MS Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Master of Science - MS Mathematical Statistics and Probability at Sorbonne UniversityNational Conservatory of Arts and Crafts
English, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Romanian
Github Skills (39)
keras10
segmentation10
instance-segmentation9
mask9
mask-rcnn9
object-detection9
faster-rcnn8
forecasting8
tensorflow8
data-mining8
kernel-methods8
anomaly-detection8
time-series7
machine-learning7
scikit-learn7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xaviervasques/hephaistos
Nov 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
xaviervasques/RCNN_Video_Mask
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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