Thibault Neveu

Fondateur @ Sophialys

About

I build products at the intersection of AI, education and human thinking. Over the past few years, I’ve led applied AI and computer vision projects all the way from research to real-world deployment, combining deep technical work with hands-on leadership. As a startup co-founder and CTO, I recruited and mentored a diverse team and helped grow and steer a 15-person company to deliver ambitious robotics and ADAS projects. I also brought a breakthrough ADAS innovation to life, something many considered impossible and it’s now running in production. Before that, I worked as a Machine Learning Research Engineer at Samsung Research America, contributing to one of the first intelligent kitchen assistant robots. Alongside my industry work, I create educational ML/AI content that has helped thousands of students (1.5M+ YouTube views).

Country

France

City

Lyon

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Leadership de Startup, Python, Machine Learning, Research, C++, JavaScript, Node.js, C, Unix, Intelligence artificielle, Apprentissage automatique, Artificial Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning

Experience

Fondateur

Sophialys

2025-9 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Building pedagogical tools for higher education. Sophialys offers dialogical books that guide students through foundational texts, complementing lectures and full-text reading.

Co-founder & CTO

Visual Behavior

2020-1 - 2026-1 · 6 yrs 1 mo

• Recruited and mentored a diverse team, playing a pivotal role in establishing and strategically steering a 15-person startup to foster innovation and secure project success. • Engineered a SOTA stereo obstacle avoidance system that surpasses LIDAR capabilities, broadens applicability, and cuts hardware costs by 90%. • Introduced breakthrough ADAS innovation, something many considered impossible and it’s now running in production. • Patent Contributor: Co-authored the patent “Adaptive Multi-Environmental Depth Estimation for Autonomous Navigation,” laying a foundation for the advancement of autonomous navigation solutions.

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Samsung Electronics

2019-3 - 2020-1 · 11 mos

Moutain view, CA

• Hired by Samsung Research America to work with the Think Tank Team : a small team of interdisciplinary researchers, scientists, designers and engineers, passionate about inventing experience-centric future products and technologies. • Worked on cutting-edge robotics through the SARAM project - a robotic arm assistant to help consumers in the kitchen https://thinktankteam.info/projects/saram/. • Developed the decision making pipeline by applying computer vision methods and deep learning. • Used robotics environments to applied reinforcement learning algorithms.

Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Hoomano

2016-1 - 2017-8 · 1 yr 8 mos

Lyon Area, France

• Applied knowledge of machine learning to develop and optimize models used in communication with robots. • Collaboratively decreased unnecessary speech from robots by 30%. • Employed analyses to institute deep learning models using captured data from human behavior as seen through robotic cameras. • Developed new application in under a month for utilization in an innovative social robot featured at CES in Las Vegas.

Software Engineer - Intern

Hoomano

2015-6 - 2015-12 · 7 mos

Lyon Area, France

• Designed software applications on social robots to interact with customers in a variety of ways. • Developed web application that managed a fleet of robots. • Contributions led to promotion to the R&D team at the conclusion of the internship.