Dr. Alexandre Pasquiou is Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Neuralk AI, a deeptech startup pioneering foundation models for structured tabular data. He holds a PhD in computational neuroscience from INRIA and an engineering degree from CentraleSupelec.

Alexandre conducted research at INRIA's MIND team under Bertrand Thirion and Christophe Pallier, publishing papers on neural language models and brain activity. His doctoral work on applying AI to neuroscience inspired Neuralk AI's core technology.

Alexandre has published 5 research papers cited 27 times in neuroscience and machine learning, with expertise in fMRI, NLP, and neural networks. The company's technology originated from his PhD research on brain data analysis.

Neuralk AI raised $4M in seed funding led by Fly Ventures, with backing from StemAI, STATION F, and notable angels including Thomas Wolf from Hugging Face. The company partners with major retailers like E.Leclerc, Auchan, Mirakl, and Lucky Cart.

Neuralk AI is building the first Tabular Foundation Model for Commerce, addressing a gap in AI that traditional LLMs cannot fill for enterprise structured data. The company launched TabBench, an open-source benchmark for evaluating tabular ML models on real-world industry tasks.