Hackathons

A 24-hour hackathon dedicated to world models, the next frontier of AI, held with the support of Yann LeCun. One hundred students in twenty-five teams, drawn from France's top engineering schools and universities, built systems around the JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture) paradigm, with high-performance GPU compute and researchers on hand through the night. The opening conference, featuring Philippe Baptiste and Yann LeCun, was held at PSL's Paris School of AI.

With team Piaget, I built Wiring the Fly Brain into a World Model, a JEPA world model trained on a complete fly-brain connectome (FlyWire, ~140k neurons) embodied in a simulated fly, built region by region on the EB-JEPA framework. We placed 2nd, and the project was reposted and congratulated by Yann LeCun. We later wrote it up as a working paper on HAL and presented it at LIX, École Polytechnique's Computer Science Laboratory. With Lucas Thil, Daniel Nowak-Assis, and Adam Jlidi.

June 19-20, 2026 · ESIEE Paris, Noisy-le-Grand (opening at PSL, Paris) · Organized by ESIEE Paris, Mines Nancy/ACADI & PR[AI]RIE, with AI Factory France · All participants received VivaTech invitations

France's premier student hackathon dedicated to Generative AI and Fintech: 150 hackers, 24 non-stop hours at HEC Paris. Teams built concrete solutions for the financial sector with access to sponsor AI tooling, mentored by engineers and entrepreneurs, and pitched to a jury of VCs and unicorn founders.

With my team, I built WEBI, an AI copilot that turns fragmented bank deal flow into a mandate-matched, negotiation-ready pipeline for structured bond products, powered by Gemini 2.0 Flash and a FAISS vector index. We pitched it to a jury of VCs and founders. No prize this round. With Emile Jouannet, Mathilde Anita Thierry, Elie de Baudus, and Roland Sosin.

April 25-26, 2026 · HEC Paris, Jouy-en-Josas · Hosted by SP AI (Sciences Po), ASES France (HEC & Stanford) & Google Developer Groups · Partners: Google, Cerebras, Mistral AI, Lovable, Station F, Hg Capital

Mistral AI's largest hackathon, 1,000+ participants across 7 cities worldwide, 36 hours of building with cutting-edge AI. I was selected from 1,700+ applicants. With Saad Souilmi and Hamza Zerouali, we built Cerno: an AI-powered recruitment platform where candidates interview with a voice-AI agent, and recruiters receive structured, bias-reducing evaluations, with no resume screening and no ghosting.

February 28 - March 1, 2026 · Paris, France · Organized by Mistral AI and Iterate · Partners: NVIDIA, AWS, Weights and Biases