About
Etienne Bernard holds a PhD from ENS and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT in statistical physics. He spent seven years at Wolfram Research leading machine learning initiatives before founding NuMind in 2022.
Etienne Bernard @etiennebcp
Relevant links: - 📖 blog post: https://t.co/2JXo7272Xc - 🤗 Model: https://t.co/5SpHy15dYx - 🤗 Space: https://t.co/ASq16L3iMa - 🖥️ API access: https://t.co/MrSe7qrPC8 - 🗣️ Discord: https://t.co/7thr07eKm6 - 🛠️ GitHub: https://t.co/pf7m2hiZNA
May 19, 2026 · ♥ 1
Etienne Bernard @etiennebcp
We are releasing NuExtract3, a 4B open-source (Apache 2.0) reasoning OCR & Structured Extraction VLM 🧠📷📄 NuExtract3 is the first reasoning VLM specialized in both OCR (converting PDFs/Scans/Spreadsheets into Markdown) and structured extraction (document to JSON via a schema). https://t.co/qe5nZQNkH4
May 19, 2026 · ♥ 17 · ⇄ 4
Etienne Bernard @etiennebcp
Great direction of research. While regular transformers achieve impressive results, I always thought that taking "decisions" (sampling a token) in natural language instead of laten space was limiting their cognition abilities. This seems to be the case. https://t.co/dkGh5Ipa3C
Oct 21, 2025 · ♥ 1
Founder at NuMindYC S22
Intro paths
Etienne went through Y Combinator (Summer 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran NuMind's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Etienne can intro founders to NuMind's investors below.
NuMind's investors · 3
Co-founders at NuMind
Experience
- NuMindFounder & CEOcurrent2022 — presentGreater Boston
- WolframLead Architect - Head of Machine Learning2014 — 2022Greater Boston Area
- WolframResearch Associate2012 — 2014Greater Boston Area
- MITPostdoctoral research in statistical physics2011 — 2012
- École normale supérieure - LPSPh.D. student2008 — 2011ENS, 24 rue Lhommond 75005, Paris, France
- Universty P.Curie UPMC-Paris6Teaching assistant2008 — 2011
- École normale supérieure - LPSResearch internship2008
- École Normale Supérieure de Cachan - CMLAResearch internship2007
- Uppsala UniversityResearch internship2006
Education
- Ecole normale supérieureDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistical and Computational Physics2008 — 2011
- Pierre and Marie Curie UniversityMaster's degree 2, Theoretical Physics of Complex systems2007 — 2008
- Ecole Normale Supérieure de CachanMaster's degree 1, Fundamental Physics2005 — 2006
- Ecole Normale Supérieure de CachanBachelor's degree, Fundamental Physics2004 — 2005
Skills & more
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OptimizationData AnalysisScientific ComputingComputational PhysicsStatistical PhysicsStatisticsModel MakingComputer ScienceProgrammingProbabilityTheoretical PhysicsResearchLanguages English · French · Spanish
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