Pre-Doctoral Researcher
Pascal Bertrand
Lab Co-Founder / Video Intelligence
Pre-Doctoral ResearcherAbout
Pascal Bertrand is a physics student at ETH Zurich and an early builder working at the intersection of science, entrepreneurship, and agentic systems. Since joining the lab from its earliest days, he has helped shape its direction with a strong bias toward execution and real-world impact. His background combines analytical training in physics with hands-on experience in deep-tech engineering and venture investing, giving him an unusually broad perspective on how ambitious technologies move from concept to adoption. Before joining the lab, Pascal worked on rockets at ARIS and gained exposure to the startup ecosystem through Founderful, where he engaged closely with Swiss founders and emerging ventures. That mix of technical curiosity and founder instinct started early: as a teenager, he co-founded a company with his brother and generated meaningful early revenue. At the lab, he now focuses on building systems that do not just analyze information, but turn noisy, fast-moving real-world data into decisions and actions.
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Seldon: Advancing multimodal AI
Seldon builds high-quality data and evaluation infrastructure for the next generation of multimodal AI models. This helps to advance AI & robotic labs to test and improve models that need to understand images, long videos, audio, text, and tool use. Seldon is researching new ways to expose where these models fail on tasks that are easy for humans, especially in long videos, cross-modal alignment and real-world visual reasoning. This helps turn model failures into better training data, RL- environments, stronger evaluations, and more reliable multimodal AI systems.
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