Curriculum Vitæ

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Work experience

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 (SpineUp by Ignition Program)

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: Best Research Internship 2017, from École polytechnique
• Outline of the confidential report (PDF, in French) (sig) and slides

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: MSc in Statistical Science

2017–2018

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

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
• Dissertation (PDF) (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
• Dissertation (PDF, in French) (sig) and 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 SPIE Proceedings article on the project’s technical specifications
• Dissertation (PDF, in French) (sig)

Research work on Markov Chains and Queuing Theory

2013–2014

• Study on the convergence of queues through algebra and numerical simulations
• Dissertation (PDF, in French) (sig)

Languages and skills

Computer science

Python:

• Numerical computing: Numpy, Scipy
• Data analysis: Pandas
• Machine Learning: Scikit-Learn
• Deep Learning: TensorFlow, PyTorch
• Network analysis: NetworkX, graph-tool
• Research projects and hackathons: community detection and DocAssist

Julia:

• Numerical computing, machine learning
• Optimisation and Operations Research: JuMP
• Projects: Garden optimisation using Markov Chain Monte Carlo and integer programming

R:

• Statistical modelling and inference (generalised linear models, bayesian analysis)
• Data analysis: Tidyverse
• Network analysis: igraph

C, Java: Embedded and network programming, scientific computing

SQL: Basics

Haskell, Lisp (Scheme): Hobby projects (N-body simulation, SAT solver, Advent of Code 2017)

Software: Git, GNU/Linux, LaTeX, Amazon AWS, MongoDB, Wolfram Mathematica, Microsoft Office

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

Languages

• French
• English

Sports

Fencing: vice-president of the 2016 X-SYSTRA International Fencing Challenge; 29th in the 2016 sabre French Student Championships

Scuba-diving: CMAS ★ ★ ★, 170+ dives