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.
Founder at NuMindYC S22
Intro paths
YC
Etienne went through Y Combinator (Summer 2022) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
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 ↗
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In turn, Etienne can intro founders to NuMind's investors below.
NuMind's investors · 3
Co-founders at NuMind
SB
Samuel BernardFounder
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
Skills & more
Mathematica26Wolfram Language7Unix2Fortran3Matlab3LaTeX6Machine Learning32Algorithms29Physics26Numerical Analysis13Markov Chain Monte Carlo6Monte Carlo Simulation8
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OptimizationData AnalysisScientific ComputingComputational PhysicsStatistical PhysicsStatisticsModel MakingComputer ScienceProgrammingProbabilityTheoretical PhysicsResearchLanguages English · French · Spanish
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Etienne Bernard?
- 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.
- Where does Etienne Bernard work?
- Etienne Bernard is Founder of NuMind.
- What companies did Etienne Bernard found?
- Etienne Bernard founded NuMind.
- Where did Etienne Bernard go to school?
- Etienne Bernard studied at Ecole normale supérieure (Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistical and Computational Physics); Pierre and Marie Curie University (Master's degree 2, Theoretical Physics of Complex systems); Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (Master's degree 1, Fundamental Physics).
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