In 2003, he graduated from a professional master in computer science at the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Rennes and from a research master in artificial intelligence at University of Rennes 1. He obtained his PhD in 2007. His goal is to build a practical theory of artificial general intelligence. With his co-author Mark Ring, they have been awarded the Solomonoff AGI Theory Prize at AGI’2011 and the Kurzweil Award for Best Idea at AGI’2012.