Cyril de Bodt was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1993. He received the M.Sc. degree in Applied Sciences (Mathematical Engineering) in 2016 and the Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science and Technology in 2020, both from UCLouvain, Belgium. From Nov. 2020 to Nov. 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Human Dynamics group of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, Cambridge, USA. He is now a Postdoctoral Researcher in the ICTEAM institute of UCLouvain under the ARIAC project of the TRAIL inter-university institute, and a Research Affiliate with the Human Dynamics group of the MIT Media Lab. His research interests include (nonlinear) dimensionality reduction, machine learning, data visualization, neighbor embedding algorithms, optimization, clustering and unsupervised learning.