About

I'm Louan BARDOU, a Visiting Researcher at UCSF. I build machine learning methods for computational neuroscience and medical imaging — with a focus on learning from scarce annotations, heterogeneous 3D imaging data, and high-dimensional brain connectivity.

Education

  • École Polytechnique — M.Sc. Engineering (AI & Data Science track), expected 2026
  • École d'ingénieurs — Materials Science & Engineering (LEEGO multi-scale modeling program, Caltech / UTC / Sorbonne)

Experience

  • Visiting Researcher, UCSF (Rauschecker–Sugrue Lab, 2025–present) — weakly-supervised 3D deep learning for white matter lesion detection on the ABCD Study cohort; ML validation of DBS connectivity fingerprints in the Presidio neuromodulation cohort
  • Research project, École Polytechnique — self-supervised representation learning on resting-state fMRI; extended Brain-JEPA with multi-scale temporal masking and VICReg covariance regularization

Contact

louan.bardou@polytechnique.edu