Shipping agentic systems,
from the lab
to production.

Currently Leading AI Applied Engineering at Wavestone as FDE & AI Lab Tech Lead, and teaching neurosciences & AI at HEC Paris / École Polytechnique.

Co-founder & CTO of Inclusive Brains — where I built the brain-computer interface platform that powered the Paris 2024 Olympic flame relay, enabling Nathalie Labrégère to carry the flame using only facial expressions and brainwaves.

AI work focused on positive impact — from accessibility and disability inclusion to climate, space, and rare-disease research.

AI Agents MCP Servers GenAI Brain-Computer Interfaces Neurotech LLMs
Paul Barbaste
Paul Barbaste
Senior AI Applied Engineer
Forward Deployed · Paris
paulbarbaste [at] gmail → LinkedIn → GitHub → Google Scholar → US Patent →
Forward Deployed Engineer · Paris
Research interests
AI Agents & Agentic Systems · MCP Server Development · Brain-Computer Interfaces · LLMs in Production · Generative AI · Neurotechnology
Experience

Where research meets the real world.

From frontier neurotech to enterprise AI deployments — building systems that move beyond demos.

Jan 2025 — Present
Wavestone
Senior AI Applied Engineer (FDE) & AI Lab Tech Lead

Designing and deploying agentic AI applications (Terraform Agents, Jira Support Agents) for enterprise clients in Energy and Banking. Built Wavestone's internal Agentic Platform and MCP server infrastructure. Wrote the AI Agentic Playbook.

2021 — Present
Inclusive Brains
CTO & Co-Founder → AI Researcher

Built a brain-computer interface platform integrating real-time EEG classification with LLMs. Developed the exoskeleton control platform used at the Paris 2024 Olympic flame relay. Research collaboration with IBM on quantum machine learning.

2023 — Present
HEC Paris · École Polytechnique
Head of Track — Neurosciences & AI

Designing and running the neurosciences & AI curriculum. Lecturer coordination, course supervision, and curriculum design for graduate students.

Skills

The stack.

Production tools I use every day — from agent frameworks and MCP to EEG pipelines and cloud infra.

~/paul/stack.py
AI Agents & MCP
frameworks
OpenAI_Agents_SDK LangGraph BeeAI Google_ADK
mcp
FastMCP mcp.server sub_agents skills
genai_platforms
OpenWebUI LibreChat n8n Langflow
Machine Learning & Data
import
torch sklearn keras qiskit_ml pandas numpy
web
Django Next.js
cloud_devops
GCP Azure Railway
Neuroscience & BCI
eeg_stack
mne moabb braindecode timeflux
methods
riemannian_geometry realtime_classification multimodal_signals
Strategy & Languages
management
business_strategy project_mgmt market_research
legal_research
patents_review corporate_law GDPR
languages
english french spanish
Projects

Selected work & open source.

Production-grade agentic systems, BCI platforms, and competition-winning prototypes.

Olympic Games Paris 2024
Prometheus BCI · Agentic Neurotech
Prometheus BCI — Adaptive Neurotech Platform

Platform powering the exoskeleton that allowed Nathalie Labrégère to carry the Olympic flame using facial expressions and brainwaves.

Python EEG Riemannian Geometry BCI AI Agents GenAI
NASA Global Nominee
The Astronomists · NASA 2025
The Astronomists — Agentic Space Platform

AI agent platform for astronomy data analysis, built in 48h for NASA Space Apps Challenge.

Python AI Agents GenAI NASA APIs
IBM — 1st place
Climate AI Hive · SDG 11
Climate AI Hive — Multi-Agent Platform

Multi-agent AI system for sustainable cities. IBM Techxchange AI Agent Hackathon winner.

Python AI Agents GenAI IBM
HuggingFace — 2nd place
Sentinel One · Enterprise
Sentinel One — AI Agentic Platform

Agentic AI security platform for enterprise clients. Live on HuggingFace Spaces.

Python AI Agents GenAI MCP
BioAI · Research
OrphaFold
OrphaFold — Rare Disease AI Agent

AI agent for rare disease research using protein folding models and GenAI.

Python AI Agents GenAI AlphaFold
Recognition

Awards.

Hackathons won against production-grade teams, inventor lists, and research grants.

Coding challenges
1st place 2025
IBM TechXchange — AI Agent Hackathon·IBM
Winner among ~5,000 developers with Climate AI Hive, a multi-agent platform for sustainable cities (SDG 11).
2nd place 2025
MCP & Agent Hackathon·Hugging Face
Silver medal among thousands of teams worldwide with Sentinel One, an enterprise agentic security platform.
Finalist 2025
Call for Code·United Nations · IBM
Finalist (pending jury) among 50,000+ participants with an AI Climate agent.
Global Nominee (top 1%) 2025
Space Apps Challenge·NASA
Global nominee among 105,000+ participants worldwide with The Astronomists, an agentic space-data platform.
Awards & grants
Top 100 2024
French Inventors — AI category·Le Point
Listed in France's top 100 inventors for the AI category for the work on Inclusive Brains brain-computer interfaces.
Laureate 2023
X-GRANT High Impact & X-IMPACT Tech·Fondation Polytechnique
Research grant awarded by École Polytechnique's foundation to support Inclusive Brains' BCI platform for disability inclusion.
Laureate 2022
Prix Coup de Pouce·HEC · Fondation Le Roch
HEC Paris entrepreneurship prize supporting the early stage of Inclusive Brains.
Media

As seen in the press.

Selected features and interviews covering brain-computer interfaces, agentic AI, and neurotech.

Jun 2025
The NationalIBM and Inclusive Brains team up to develop mind-controlled computing
Coverage of the research collaboration bringing together AI, quantum computing and neurotechnologies.
Jun 2025
IBM NewsroomIBM × Inclusive Brains — AI, Quantum and Neurotech for brain-machine interfaces
Official announcement of the joint research program between IBM and Inclusive Brains.
2024
HEC StoriesPaul Barbaste — Deep into Neuro Science-Fiction
Long-form profile on the path from Sciences Po and HEC to co-founding Inclusive Brains.
2024
Allianz TradePrometheus — Mind-controlled keyboard for workplace inclusion
Partnership launch featuring the BCI platform that enables hands-free computer interaction.
2024
Université de StrasbourgPaul Barbaste — la force de l'IA est avec lui
Portrait d'un parcours entre cybersécurité, IA appliquée et neurotechnologies.
2025
Wavestone InsightsAgentic AI Playbook — Understanding the AI agent revolution
Co-authored playbook on how enterprises should approach agentic AI, from MVP to production.
2023
Fondation Le RochPortrait d'entrepreneur — Paul Barbaste
Retour sur le lauréat du Prix Coup de Pouce et son travail à l'intersection IA · neurosciences.
Research

Publications & patents.

Peer-reviewed work, preprints, and intellectual property at the intersection of AI and neurotechnology.

2025
PatentHardware-agnostic multimodal brain-computer interface powered by a generative artificial intelligence neural foundation model and cognitive AI agents
US12554328B2 · USPTO
2026
PreprintInside coding agents: a comprehensive review of SWE agentic systems
To be published · May 2026
2026
JournalImproving consciousness assessment through neuroadaptive artificial intelligence and quantum-enhanced brain-computer interfaces
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
2025
PreprintRethinking generalized BCIs: benchmarking 340,000+ unique algorithmic configurations for EEG mental command decoding
arXiv · 2025

Let's build something extraordinary.

Open to collaborations, research partnerships, and interesting problems at the frontier of AI and neurotechnology.

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