Simon AlibertCo-founder and Chief Technology Officer · UMAFounder↗
Founder · Executive · Researcher · Engineer
Rémi Cadene
UMACEO and co-founder
Cadene built early neural networks for Tesla Optimus and created LeRobot at Hugging Face, an open-source stack spanning robot control, datasets, and learning algorithms. At UMA he is building general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots.
Career & education
Current roleUMAOct 2025-presentCEO and co-founder
UMAOct 2025-presentPreviously
Hugging Face2024-2025Principal Research Scientist
Tesla2021-2024Staff Scientist
Brown University2020-2021Postdoctoral Researcher
Sorbonne University2020-2021Postdoctoral Researcher
Hugging Face2024-2025Tesla2021-2024Brown University2020-2021Sorbonne University2020-2021Education
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