Emmanuel’s curiosity moves across fields, which is what first drew him to artificial intelligence and its ability to tackle problems in many domains. He holds a bachelor’s in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence from Maastricht University. Alert to the ethical concerns of the technology, he wanted to apply it to something meaningful.
He found that direction in Earth Species Project’s mission, which led him to study beluga bioacoustics at the LISSÉ Lab for 2 years, publishing work on lightweight call classification for edge devices. At ESP he now works on killer whale communication and the processing and analysis of their acoustic data.
Understanding how animals communicate is inseparable from understanding their cognition, a grounding he set out to build directly in a master’s in cognitive science at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.