Since Nov. 2019

Senior Machine Learning Scientist

SONOS (Paris, France)

• Improve Sonos' speech recognition engines with deep neural networks.
• Provide support and training in machine learning for the data science teams.

• Developed an end-to-end system for open-vocabulary keyword spotting.

2017 - 2019

Senior Machine Learning Scientist

Snips (Paris, France)

• Improve Snips' speech recognition engines with deep neural networks.
• Provide support and training in machine learning for the data science teams.
• Develop training and evaluation pipelines.

• Developed and maintained training pipelines using Kaldi and TensorFlow.
• Prototyped dynamic decoding, keyword spotting and joint ASR+NLU methods.

2011 - 2017

Research Engineer

A2iA (Paris, France)

• Improvement of A2iA's text recognition engines with deep neural networks.
• Maintenance, support and new features for A2iA's neural network library.
• Work on public research projects and internal projects.
• Technological watch and presentations in conferences and workshops.

• Development of a full-line recognition pipeline, used in A2iA's new products.
• Contribution to winning systems at the OpenHaRT and Maurdor evaluations
• End-to-end paragraph recognition with attention-based neural networks.
• 4x speedup of Chinese recognition models using character decompositions.
• Smaller, faster, more accurate Latin script recognition models for mobile on-device recognition.

2010 - 2011

Software Engineer, project manager

Viveris Systèmes (Boulogne-Billancourt, France)

Maintenance of a web application (LAMP) for online hotel booking, and for managing the business of a hotel broker.

2011 - 2015

PhD in Machine Learning

LIMSI-CNRS (Lyon, France)

PhD funded by industry (A2iA).

Thesis: "Deep Neural Networks for Large Vocabulary Handwritten Text Recognition". Read More »

2009 - 2010

MSc in Computer Science

Oxford University (UK)

Dissertation: "Mathematical Formula Recognition using Machine Learning Techniques". Read More »

2007 - 2010

Master's Degree in Engineering

Supélec (Gif-sur-Yvette, France)

 Other Experience

Volonteer at MAS Roller (Massy, France)

Various responsibilities (president, vice-president, responsible for communication) in the roller-skating association.

• Created and maintained the website, web communication (Facebook, etc.)
• Communication through various media
• Organization and promotion of public events
• Relations with city council, requests for public subsidies

Engineer Intern

Laboratoire de Neurosciences Fonctionnelles et Pathologiques (CNRS) (Lille, France)

Topic: "Localisation de la pupille et du reflet pupillaire sur un flux vidéo infrarouge"
Programmed an eye-tracker in C++ with Matrox Imaging Library, in the research laboratory of the hospital of Lille, used as support for experiments on peripheral vision.

  Relevant Skills

• French (native speaker)
• English (fluent)
• Portuguese (advanced)
• German (basic)