Yves is an AI researcher and the director of the “AI & Neuroscience in Media” Project at USC’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC). A research center at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, ETC brings together all the Hollywood studios as well as large tech companies to study the impact on technology in the media industry.  

Yves is also the co-founder and CEO of Corto, an AI startup developing AI tools to understand the deep semantics of stories, audiences, and digital cultures. Corto is in Private Beta with a dozen studios, advertising agencies, and global consumer brands, and is already used to develop film, TV, and branded content.

In addition, he is a member of the Digital Storytelling Lab at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and a member of the Generative AI Task Force at The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.