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title: "Curriculum Vitæ"
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[[./files/cv.pdf][(PDF version)]]


* Work experience

*** [[https://www.mindsay.com/][Mindsay]]: R&D Data Scientist and Engineering Manager
    October 2018--present

    - Natural Language Processing and Reinforcement Learning for Chatbots
    - Management of the R&D team (3 data scientists) and of all research projects
    - Entirely responsible with the CTO for the patents strategy in Europe and abroad
    - Attended a 6-day training programme for young managers ([[https://ignition-program.com/formations/spineup-mars-2020][SpineUp]] by Ignition Program)

***  [[http://www.sysnav.fr/][Sysnav]]: Real-time geolocalization algorithm on an embedded device
    March--August 2017

    - Mathematical modelling of the human walk
    - Step detection using artificial intelligence on inertial sensors data
    - Statistical methods for trajectory reconstruction
    - /Award:/ [[http://www.sysnav.fr/dimitri-lozeve-etudiant-sysnav-obtient-le-prix-du-meilleur-stage-de-recherche-2017-de-lecole-polytechnique/][Best Research Internship 2017, from École polytechnique]]
    - [[./files/sysnav_internship.pdf][Outline of the confidential report (PDF, in French)]] ([[./files/sysnav_internship.pdf.minisig][sig]]) and [[https://dlozeve.github.io/stage3a/][slides]]

*** [[https://www.natixis.com/][Natixis]] London Branch, Global Infrastructure and Projects: Intern Analyst
    June--August 2016

    Origination and execution of project finance transactions:
    offshore windfarms, hydroelectric dams, and a biomass power plant
    now under construction in northeastern England. Long-term
    projections of energy and financial time series data.

*** French Engineering Corps: Army officer
    2014--2015

    Operation Sangaris: Military intervention in the Central African
    Republic.

    - Instructor for new recruits for 4 months (around 30 soldiers)
    - Security Officer during the building of a Bailey bridge in Bangui
    - Participation in an intelligence gathering mission in the Northeastern part of the country
    - /French Republic Distinctions:/ Overseas Medal, National Defence Medal
* Education

*** University of Oxford: [[https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/msc-statistical-science][MSc in Statistical Science]]
    2017--2018

    - Applied and computational statistics, statistical machine learning and statistical inference

*** [[https://www.polytechnique.edu/][École polytechnique]]
    2014--2017

    - Majors in Majors in Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, Data Science, and Computer Science
    - /Distinctions:/ Outstanding Investment, Outstanding Leadership

*** Lycée Privé Sainte-Geneviève, Versailles: Preparatory classes to French /Grandes Écoles/
    2012--2014

    - Majors in Mathematics and Physics

* Scientific projects
*** Topological Data Analysis of time-dependent networks
    2018

    - Master's thesis, joint work with Oxford's Department of Statistics and Mathematical Institute, with Prof. Heather Harrington (Oxford), Prof. Mason Porter (UCLA), and Prof. Renaud Lambiotte (Oxford)
    - Application of the recent advances in Topological Data Analysis (TDA) and Persistent Homology to periodicity detection in temporal networks
    - [[./files/tdanetworks.pdf][Dissertation (PDF)]] ([[./files/tdanetworks.pdf.minisig][sig]])

*** Research work on Community Detection in Social Networks
    2016--2017

    - Research project with the Microsoft-INRIA joint center, with Prof. Laurent Massoulié
    - Comparison of the performance of state-of-the-art algorithms (theory and implementations)
    - Application to large-scale, real-world social networks
    - [[./files/communitydetection.pdf][Dissertation (PDF, in French)]] ([[./files/communitydetection.pdf.minisig][sig]]) and [[https://dlozeve.github.io/reveal_CommunityDetection/][slides]]

*** SERB X-CubeSat II program: a nano-satellite dedicated to Sun-Earth relationship
    2015--2016

    - Solar Irradiance and Earth Radiation Budget: Payload preliminary design
    - Co-authored [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2222660][SPIE Proceedings article]] on the project’s technical specifications
    - [[./files/serb.pdf][Dissertation (PDF, in French)]] ([[./files/serb.pdf.minisig][sig]])

*** Research work on Markov Chains and Queuing Theory
    2013--2014

    - Study on the convergence of queues through algebra and numerical simulations
    - [[./files/filesdattente.pdf][Dissertation (PDF, in French)]] ([[./files/filesdattente.pdf.minisig][sig]])

* Languages and skills

*** Computer science

    *Python:*

    - Numerical computing: [[http://www.numpy.org/][Numpy]], [[https://www.scipy.org/][Scipy]]
    - Data analysis: [[https://pandas.pydata.org/][Pandas]]
    - Machine Learning: [[http://scikit-learn.org/][Scikit-Learn]]
    - Deep Learning: [[https://www.tensorflow.org/][TensorFlow]], [[http://pytorch.org/][PyTorch]]
    - Network analysis: [[https://networkx.github.io/][NetworkX]], [[https://graph-tool.skewed.de/][graph-tool]]
    - Research projects and hackathons: [[https://github.com/dlozeve/community-detection][community detection]] and [[https://github.com/dlozeve/DocAssist][DocAssist]]

    *Julia:*

    - Numerical computing, machine learning
    - Optimisation and Operations Research: [[https://github.com/JuliaOpt/JuMP.jl][JuMP]]
    - Projects: [[https://github.com/dlozeve/GardenOptim][Garden optimisation]] using Markov Chain Monte Carlo and integer programming
     
    *R:*

    - Statistical modelling and inference (generalised linear models, bayesian analysis)
    - Data analysis: [[https://www.tidyverse.org/][Tidyverse]]
    - Network analysis: [[http://igraph.org/][igraph]]

    *C, Java:* Embedded and [[https://github.com/dlozeve/Satrap][network]] programming, [[https://github.com/dlozeve/topological-persistence][scientific computing]]

    *SQL:* Basics

    *Haskell, Lisp (Scheme):* Hobby projects ([[https://github.com/dlozeve/orbit][N-body simulation]], [[https://github.com/dlozeve/Civilisation-hs][SAT solver]], [[https://github.com/dlozeve/aoc2017][Advent of Code 2017]])

    *Software:* Git, GNU/Linux, LaTeX, [[https://aws.amazon.com/][Amazon AWS]], [[https://www.mongodb.com/][MongoDB]], [[https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/][Wolfram Mathematica]], Microsoft Office

    See also [[./skills.html][a complete list of my skills in Statistics, Data Science and Machine Learning]].

*** Languages

    - French
    - English

*** Sports

    *Fencing:* vice-president of the 2016 [[http://x-systra.com/][X-SYSTRA International Fencing Challenge]]; 29th in the 2016 sabre French Student Championships

    *Scuba-diving:* CMAS ★ ★ ★, 170+ dives
