Turing Award laureate (2018). Former Meta VP & Chief AI Scientist (12+ years). Architect of JEPA — the foundation of AMI's approach. Professor at NYU. Dual French-American.
Serial AI entrepreneur. Founded VirtuOz (sold to Nuance/Microsoft 2012), Wit.ai (sold to Meta 2015), Nabla (85K physicians). 24+ years in AI.
12 years at Meta (VP Europe). Built FAIR Paris into largest AI lab outside US. Before: CEO of TF1 Publicité; Chief of Staff to Nicolas Sarkozy. ENA & Sciences Po graduate.
Visual representation learning specialist. Former Google DeepMind & Meta FAIR. Assistant Professor at NYU Courant. PhD from UC San Diego.
Former OpenAI researcher. Postdoc at Meta FAIR NY. Co-founder of Lightelligence. PhD in Physics from MIT. Gold Medal IPhO. Forbes 30 Under 30.
Former Meta & Google Research Scientist. PhD from UT Austin. ACM ICPC Asia Regional Gold Medal.
Former Google DeepMind Senior Research Scientist (Seattle). Faculty Fellow at NYU. Research internships at Meta & Adobe. PhD from KAIST.
I joined AMI Labs as a founding member of the NYC lab! I'm super excited to build AI systems that truly understand the real world.
Computer vision and multimodal AI researcher focused on advancing spatial intelligence and reasoning in next-generation large-scale multimodal models.
AI researcher building spatially intelligent agents, best known for the Depth Anything series advancing human-level machine perception.
Research engineer building large-scale multimodal AI systems and world models.
Member of the technical staff at AMI, working on world models. Prior to AMI, was a research engineer in the FAIR team at Meta, where he worked on fastMRI, neural compression, and JEPA.
Pioneer in human-centered AI. Former Meta FAIR Senior Director. Chair Professor at HKUST. PhD from Columbia. Fellow of IEEE, ISCA, ACL, AAAI.
Working on VL-JEPA and vision-language world modeling. Former Visiting Researcher at Meta Paris. PhD student at HKUST (ECE).
Basile Terver is a rising French AI researcher and PhD candidate working with Yann Le Cun at Inria and AMI, bridging elite scientific training with deep connections across the French intellectual ecosystem.
A second-year PhD student at ISIR, Sorbonne Université, who spent the first year and a half of his PhD at Meta (FAIR), working on world models and high-level planning, and is now continuing and finishing his PhD at AMILabs.
Expert in world models & self-supervised learning. Former Meta FAIR Montreal Director. Professor at McGill (11+ years). PhD from U. Wisconsin-Madison.
AI research engineer specializing in large-scale self-supervised learning and video generation, with prior leadership experience in financial software engineering and distributed systems.
Former Principal Research Scientist at Sea (Singapore). Postdoc at Mila. PhD from NUS. BS in Biology from Peking University.
Former Staff Research Scientist at ByteDance (Seed Multimodal & World Model team). Co-author of LLaVA-NeXT, LLaVA-OneVision, LLaVA-Video. Former Microsoft Research.
Machine learning researcher and systems engineer specializing in scaling AI from theory to real-world, production-grade applications across large technology platforms.
Senior Research Scientist specializing in machine learning and deep learning.
Veteran engineering leader and VP of Engineering at AMI Labs, with a track record of scaling high-impact technology platforms across Meta, Amadeus, and American Express.
Building IT Infra & Ops
French entrepreneur and operator currently serving as Chief of Staff to the CEO at AMI.
Building strategic partnerships with key industrial players, helping to bring AMI's work on World Models into the real world.
Founding team, Office of Yann LeCun. Former Executive Administrative Partner at Meta AI (supported LeCun & Léon Bottou). BS Business from Boston University.
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