Tom Devynck

Tom Devynck

PhD student in deep learningCo-founder of Tensaure

Professional experience

October 2025 – Present

Doctoral Researcher in Deep Learning

DAVID Lab (UVSQ) & LISN, Université Paris-Saclay · Paris, France

  • Research on structured feature selection in deep networks (vision transformers and CNNs), targeting robustness and interpretability.
  • First-author publications at IJCAI 2026 and ESANN 2026.
  • Ongoing work on token pooling and group robustness in vision transformers.
September 2025 – Present

Co-founder

Tensaure

  • Startup born from the ThinkYoung x Google hackathon: we design optimisation models for companies and take them all the way to production.
Sep 2024 – Sep 2025

Data Scientist Apprenticeship

Aqsone · Toulouse, France

  • Project for CNES: detection of extreme winds on rocket launch sites.
  • R&D project on hierarchical text classification within the company’s innovation lab.
  • Hands-on work with LLM technologies: NLP pipelines, LangChain, RAG.
May – Aug 2024

Data Analyst Internship

Médiamétrie · Paris, France

  • Developed unsupervised models to detect anomalous survey responses; co-authored a paper presented at ESRA 2025 and JMS 2025.
May – Jul 2022

Data Analyst Internship

La Cali · Libourne, France

  • Automated a Python tool for monitoring statistical studies.