Co-founders

6 researchers & entrepreneurs
Alexandre LeBrun
Alexandre LeBrun
CEO & Co-Founder
Paris

Serial AI entrepreneur. Founded VirtuOz (sold to Nuance/Microsoft 2012), Wit.ai (sold to Meta 2015), Nabla (85K physicians). 24+ years in AI.

Laurent Solly
Laurent Solly
COO & Co-Founder
Paris

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.

Michael Rabbat
Michael Rabbat
VP of World Models & Co-Founder
Montreal

Expert in world models & self-supervised learning. Former Meta FAIR Montreal Director. Professor at McGill (11+ years). PhD from U. Wisconsin-Madison.

Pascale Fung
Pascale Fung
Chief Research & Innovation Officer & Co-Founder
Paris

Pioneer in human-centered AI. Former Meta FAIR Senior Director. Chair Professor at HKUST. PhD from Columbia. Fellow of IEEE, ISCA, ACL, AAAI.

Saining Xie
Saining Xie
Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder
New York

Visual representation learning specialist. Former Google DeepMind & Meta FAIR. Assistant Professor at NYU Courant. PhD from UC San Diego.

Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun
Executive Chairman & Co-Founder
Paris/New York

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.

Science & Research Leadership

31 researchers & lab leads
Adithya Iyer
Member of Technical Staff · New York

Former founding machine-learning researcher at Morphic, where he led work on video-generation models.

Adrien Bardes
Member of Technical Staff · Paris

Former Meta research scientist whose work focuses on self-supervised visual learning and world-model architectures.

Amir Bar
Member of Technical Staff · London

An assistant professor at Imperial College London, a former Meta researcher, and a founding member of technical staff at AMI Labs.

Andrew Brown
Member of Technical Staff · New York

A former Meta research scientist specializing in generative video, computer vision and multimodal representation learning.

Ayaan Naveed Malik
Research Scientist · New York City

Recent Stanford graduate with background in robotics and multimodal AI.

Basile Terver
Doctorant chercheur · Paris

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.

Bingyi Kang
Founding Scientist · New York City

AI researcher building spatially intelligent agents, best known for the Depth Anything series advancing human-level machine perception.

Bowen Shi
Member of Technical Staff · New York City

Previously at Meta, where he helped develop major speech, audio, and multimodal foundation models, including SAM Audio, MovieGen Audio, AudioBox, VoiceBox, and MMS.

Brian Li
Member of Technical Staff (Singapore) · Singapore

Former Staff Research Scientist at ByteDance (Seed Multimodal & World Model team). Co-author of LLaVA-NeXT, LLaVA-OneVision, LLaVA-Video. Former Microsoft Research.

Chao Du
Member of the Technical Staff · Singapore

Senior Research Scientist specializing in machine learning and deep learning.

Christophe Tcheng
VP Engineering · Paris

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.

David Fan
Member of Technical Staff · New York City

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.

Delong Chen
Founding Team Member · Paris

Working on VL-JEPA and vision-language world modeling. Former Visiting Researcher at Meta Paris. PhD student at HKUST (ECE).

Haoyi Li
Member of Technical Staff · Singapore

Author and software engineer known for building large-scale developer infrastructure at Databricks and Dropbox.

Jihan Yang
Researcher · New York City

Computer vision and multimodal AI researcher focused on advancing spatial intelligence and reasoning in next-generation large-scale multimodal models.

John Nguyen
Member of the Technical Staff · New York

Research engineer building large-scale multimodal AI systems and world models.

Julia Kempe
Director of Research, Paris · Paris

Silver Professor of Computer Science, Data Science and Mathematics at New York University’s Courant Institute and Center for Data Science.

Li Jing
Head of Pretraining · New York

Former OpenAI researcher. Postdoc at Meta FAIR NY. Co-founder of Lightelligence. PhD in Physics from MIT. Gold Medal IPhO. Forbes 30 Under 30.

Matthew Muckley
Member of the Technical Staff · New York City

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.

Megi Dervishi
Postdoc · Paris

Meta FAIR-trained computer scientist whose work spans artificial intelligence, machine learning and advanced research systems.

Min Lin
Head of AMI Singapore · Singapore

Former Principal Research Scientist at Sea (Singapore). Postdoc at Mila. PhD from NUS. BS in Biology from Peking University.

Quentin Duval
Member of Technical Staff · Montreal

AI research engineer specializing in large-scale self-supervised learning and video generation, with prior leadership experience in financial software engineering and distributed systems.

Quentin Garrido
Member of Technical Staff · Paris

Former Meta FAIR research scientist specializing in self-supervised learning, computer vision and world models.

Quentin Le Lidec
Postdoctoral researcher · Paris

A postdoctoral researcher at AMI Labs developing world models for robotics, with expertise spanning machine learning, differentiable optimization, computer vision and physical simulation.

Rohit Girdhar
Research Scientist · New York

Former Meta AI researcher whose work spans computer vision, multimodal learning, and advanced generative AI systems.

Sanghyun Woo
Member of Technical Staff · New York

Former Google DeepMind Senior Research Scientist (Seattle). Faculty Fellow at NYU. Research internships at Meta & Adobe. PhD from KAIST.

Tengyu Ma
Member of Technical Staff · New York

Former Meta FAIR Staff Research Scientist whose work has contributed to major advances in visual grounding and image segmentation, including SAM 2 and SAM 3.

Willy Chung
PhD Candidate at Advanced Machine Intelligence · Paris

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.

Xingyi Zhou
Scientist · New York

Former Meta & Google Research Scientist. PhD from UT Austin. ACM ICPC Asia Regional Gold Medal.

Xinyi Wan
Member of Research Staff · Singapore

Machine learning researcher and systems engineer specializing in scaling AI from theory to real-world, production-grade applications across large technology platforms.

Xuefeng Hu
Member of Technical Staff · New York City

Specializing in world models, multimodal learning and video foundation models, following research roles at ByteDance, Meta and Amazon.

Operating Leadership

Aurélia Bortone-Bouvet
Chief of Staff · Paris

Building strategic partnerships with key industrial players, helping to bring AMI's work on World Models into the real world.

Felix Naepels
Head of IT / CIO / IT Director · Paris

Building IT Infra & Ops

Léopold Treppoz
Chief of Staff to the CEO · Paris

French entrepreneur and operator currently serving as Chief of Staff to the CEO at AMI.

Marina Farthouat
Recruiter, Paris · Paris

People and culture leader helping AMI Labs build and scale its global team, following senior executive roles at Oyster, ClickHouse, Elastic, and Asurion.

Sean Nguyen
Director of Operations · New York

Founding team, Office of Yann LeCun. Former Executive Administrative Partner at Meta AI (supported LeCun & Léon Bottou). BS Business from Boston University.

Sonia Rattan
Recruiter · New York

Bringing more than a decade of experience recruiting specialized AI, machine-learning, and technical talent for companies including Google, Snowflake, and Moonvalley.