Franc Camps-Febrer
I build tools at the edges of research, technology, and public life. Trained in physics and neuroscience, I’ve spent fifteen years moving between very different worlds: research on multimodal AI, The New York Times, early-stage startups, criminal-justice storytelling, and forensic investigation.
At Hume AI I design and build the infrastructure through which researchers evaluate multimodal models: human-feedback studies, model comparisons, and the pipelines and analysis behind them. That infrastructure underpins the RW-Voice-EQ benchmark, which Google cited in launching Gemini 3.8 TTS.
At The New York Times I worked in R&D on language models and machine learning, which became the bridge to what I do now.
At Obsidian Security, a fast-growing cybersecurity company, I led data visualization engineering. Before that I was the first developer at Spate, building the prototype that took it into Y Combinator in 2018.
For The Visiting Room Project I designed and built the website: more than a hundred filmed interviews with people serving life without parole at Angola, in Louisiana. The project’s collaboration with New York Times Opinion was nominated for a News Emmy in 2024.
At Forensic Architecture I was a researcher and led software development, building platforms to visualize, navigate, and present evidence in investigations of state violence, among them the Grenfell Tower fire. The collective was shortlisted for the 2018 Turner Prize.