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Currently

• Since 2020: Ph.D student in Machine Learning/Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • Dissertation: Deep Reinforcement Learning for soft object grasping
  • Supervisor: Prof. Liming Chen and Associate Prof. Emmanuel Dellandréa
• Since 2020: Interrogator in mathematics
  • in the 5th best Classe Préparatoire* in France, since 2020
  • Centre scolaire Aux Lazariste
• Since 2018: Firefighter-engineer (reservist)
  • Paris Fire Brigade, France
  • I worked one year on a proof of concept of an embedded communication and localisation system based on LoRa/Mesh Wi-Fi/UWB. I used real-time optimization algorithm to acquire and treat various soft information.
  • Since 2019, I work part time in support of innovation topics such as indoor localization, indoor communication, etc.

Education

• 2016-2019: Diplôme d’Ingénieur (M.S. and B.S. in Engineering Sciences)
  • Majoring in computer science
  • École centrale de Lyon, France
• 2018-2019: Master’s degree in Electronics, Energy, Electricity and Automation
  • Dissertation: Mixed-Precision in Graphics Processing Units
  • Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France
  • [Report] [Slides]
• 2014-2016: Classe Préparatoire*
  • Lycée Clemenceau, Nantes, France

Work experience

• Sring 2020: Machine Learning Research Internship
  • LIRIS, UMR 5205 CNRS France
  • Deep Reinforcement Learning for soft objects grasping
  • [Report] [Repository] [Blog post]
• 2019 - 2020: Deep Learning Project
  • From visual and audio features of 66 movies (MEDIAEVAL18 dataset), the aim is to predict valence and arousal for each second of the movie. We use LSTM and CNN, coded with PyTorch in Python, trained on cloud GPUs.
  • [Report] [Repository] [Blog post]
• Spring 2018: Research Internship
  • Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
  • Supervisor: Prof. Maxime Raison
  • I developed a robotic arm with 3D printing for disabled children. The goal was to make the arm capable of playing tennis table. Computer vision and real-time algorithm to detect the ball and make the arm hit it.
  • [Report] [Blog post]

Supervised student and projects

• 2021: Dimitri Fréon (internship): High performance simulation of soft object grasping.
• 2021: Simulation and characterisation of a tactile sensor for learning robotic tasks. (4 engineering students).
• 2020: Soft-information for indoor positioning of firefighters. (14 engineering students).

Miscellaneous

• Since 2021: Official author of Towards Data Science (602k followers)
• 2019: National Defence Medalist for my commitment as a firefighter.
• 2019: Letter of congratulations from the Chief of Staff of the Paris Fire Brigade.
• 2019: Finisher of my first marathon (42.195 km; 3h19min) in Paris.
• 2012: Winner of Science et vie junior magazine’s Innovez national contest.
• Since 2011: I am a black belt in Judo and I have been a national level athlete.

*: equivalent to first two years of B.S. in the US