PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Clement Farabet

Clement Farabet is an AI researcher and executive whose career connects computer vision, machine-learning software and AI infrastructure. He earned an electrical engineering master's in Lyon and a doctorate on real-time image understanding at Université Paris-Est while working in Yann LeCun's NYU lab. He co-authored Torch7, co-founded MadBits, helped build Twitter Cortex, and served as NVIDIA's vice president of AI infrastructure. In April 2026, he served as a vice president at Google DeepMind and co-authored Google's announcement of Gemma 4.

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Timeline

  1. 2008–2013

    A doctorate in real-time vision

    After earning an electrical engineering master's from INSA Lyon in 2008, he joins Yann LeCun's lab at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences as a research scientist. His 2013 doctorate at Université Paris-Est, co-advised by LeCun and Laurent Najman, focuses on real-time image understanding through multi-scale convolutional networks and custom deep-learning hardware.

  2. 2011

    Torch7 for machine learning

    In 2011, he co-authors Torch7, a Lua-based numeric computing framework and machine-learning library built to design and train learning systems.

  3. 2013–2014

    Building MadBits

    After completing his doctorate in 2013, he co-founds MadBits to represent, understand and connect images; Twitter acquires the company in 2014.

  4. 2014

    Forming Twitter Cortex

    After Twitter buys MadBits in 2014, he co-founds Cortex, which builds machine-learning capabilities for Twitter products such as recommendations, search and timeline ranking.

  5. By 2020

    AI infrastructure at NVIDIA

    By 2020, he is vice president of AI infrastructure at NVIDIA and presents Project MagLev, its end-to-end platform for developing self-driving car software. He also oversees RAPIDS, a data science platform.

  6. July 2025

    People of AI at DeepMind

    In July 2025, he appears on Google's People of AI podcast as a vice president of research at Google DeepMind. The episode follows AI's path from convolutional neural networks to transformers and agentic systems.

  7. April 2026

    A vice president at Google DeepMind

    In April 2026, he serves as a vice president at Google DeepMind and co-authors Google's announcement of Gemma 4, an open model family built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows.

Career

  1. Until 2026Google DeepMindVice President
  2. From 2014TwitterCo-founder
  3. 2013–2014MadBitsCo-founder
  4. 2008–2013Courant Institute of Mathematical SciencesResearch scientist
  5. NVIDIAVice President of AI Infrastructure

Education

  1. 2013Paris-Est UniversityPhD
  2. 2008National Institute of Applied Sciences LyonMaster's in electrical engineering

From the biography.

  1. 14% of AI doctorate holders from 2010 to 2016 founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduationIncludes Clement Farabet. We estimate how often AI doctorate holders founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after their doctorate, and how the timing changed across cohorts.
  2. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Google. Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.
  3. Google alumni founded or led 87 other organizations, the most among the labs we compareIncludes Google. We trace 212 organizations founded or led by AI lab alumni, and 223 career moves between the labs.
  4. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Includes Google. Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI from 1961 to 2025, with a year-by-year chart.

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Sources and credits

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  1. Clement Farabet, VP of AI infrastructure at NVIDIA | Mathematics and Statistics - McGill University mcgill.ca. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. Clement Farabet | USENIX usenix.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. Torch7: A Matlab-like Environment for Machine Learning | hgpu.org hgpu.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. Clément Farabet | TWIML - The Voice of Machine Learning & AI twimlai.com. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. Inside NVIDIA’s AI Infrastructure for Self-driving Cars | USENIX usenix.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. People of AI podcast Season 5 is here: Meet the builders shaping the future - Google Developers Blog developers.googleblog.com. Checked 19 October 2026.
  7. Gemma 4: Our most capable open models to date blog.google. Checked 19 October 2026.
  8. Google DeepMind joins STATION F | STATION F stationf.co. Checked 19 October 2026.