Experience

1. ML Staff Engineer

   Tavus, INC (USA) December 2024 – Present
   • Lipsync expert: inventing and developing realtime / zeroshot lipsyncing DL models
   • 🎉 Success (Apr-2025): Tavus launches Hummingbird-0 lipsync model
   • 🎉 Success (Feb-2025): Tavus launches Phoenix-3 AI conversational interface

2. Principal Software Engineer

   Roblox (USA) January 2021 – October 2024
   • Worked on modeling side of a geometry gen-AI solution (3d foundational multi-modal scene generation model)
   • Co-inventor of a text or image to animated head geometry deep learning architecture
   • Hands on billion parameters model training (diffusion models / transformer / GANs)
   • Contributed to scaling of the training of a voice-safety DL architecture
   • Implemented an ML python framework for doing AI at Roblox
   • Integration of audio/video to facial animation models/algorithms
   • Implemented the code to animate heads in Roblox’s game engine
   • Implemented the code to capture realtime video in Roblox’s game engine
   • 🎉 Success (2022): real time facial animation is used by more than a multi-million users per day
   • 🎉 Success (2023): voice safety is deployed at scale (millions of minutes of audio analyzed per day)
   • 🎉 Success (2024): text to geometry DL architecture made its way into a product

3. Senior RnD Software Engineer

   Loom.ai (Startup / USA) August 2018 – December 2020
   • Research and integration of audio/video to facial animation models/algorithms
   • Code optimization for realtime constraints with minimal memory / CPU footprint
   • C++ design/integration of multiple critical parts of the main company’s product
   • 🎉 Success: company got acquired by Roblox!

4. Senior RnD Software Engineer

   Astral Images (USA) November 2015 – August 2018
   • Developement of SDR to HDR rendering / color automatic transformation tools
   • Research and implementation of post-processing tools such as sparkle/color/highlight enhancement algorithms
   • Invention of algorithms for image restoration by means of advanced deep learning technics (dust/scratch/mold removal algorithms)
   • Computer vision GPU programming by means of Halide
   • Software architecture leader

5. Finance Software Developer

   Invivoo - Invivoo (FR) July 2012 – October 2015
   • Development of algorithms to compute prices and risks on highly non-linear financial instruments
   • Designing of a central financial products converter
   • 🎉 Success: the project I worked on processed millions dollars per day for years, with almost no restart of the module.

6. R&D software engineer

   Duran Duboi (FR) April 2009 – February 2012
   • R&D engineer on a real time augmented reality project
   • Development of efficient denoising algorithms
   • Works on various image processing OFX plugins
   • Improvement of an existing visual FX editing tool

Education

1. MIT 8 weeks course on quantum computing

   MIT xPro April 2024 – July 2024
   • Explored the potential of quantum computing with regards to cybersecurity, chemistry, and optimization. Got a front row seat to demonstrations and simulations of quantum algorithms with multiple real-world case studies on a real quantum computer.
   • Certificate of completion: https://xpro.mit.edu/certificate/aac75fb0-0071-4708-ae15-08465cec1f10
   • Certificate of completion: https://xpro.mit.edu/certificate/ce883b7a-ea4e-4adc-a0f2-d2579a85547f/

2. Master's Degree in computer science

   Orsay University, France September 2004 – September 2009
   • Master’s degree in computer science (magna cum laude)
   • 3 work experiences in 3 years, leading to one publication

Skills & Hobbies

Technical Skills

C++

Python

Deep Learning

Architecture design

Hobbies

Photography

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Cooking

Languages

100%

French

95%

English