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Île-De-France, France

Paris, La Défense, Fr

Building ENGIE's "Breakthrough AI" Acceleration Program to power the energy transition.

Paris, La Défense, Fr

ENGIE Digital is ENGIE's Software Company. We "build and deploy intelligent digital platforms for a sustainable world" by building capabilities and leading teams to design and deliver data-powered digital assets to contribute to the zero-carbon energy transition.- Leading ENGIE Digital's Data vision, strategy, and tactical implementation by creating opportunities via AI use cases with unique value propositions, ensuring adoption via user-centered design and design thinking, measuring and maximizing impact, and streamlining in-house and third-party technology.- Managing a team of ~15 Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Data Engineers, Data Architects, Data Stewards. Matrix management of Software Engineers and Product Owners involved in Data-related areas (~25 people). Overseeing partnership with C3.ai Center of Excellence and product teams (~30 people).- Sponsoring ENGIE Digital's transverse Data Practice in areas related to Data Sourcing, Data Management, DataOps/MLOps, Data Value Tracking, and AI R&D/Innovation in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.- As Head of Robin Analytics Platform: responsible for product delivery, business model, and P&L of predictive maintenance solution for ENGIE's thermal generation assets.- As Head of Ellipse's Sustainability Data Platform: supporting platform team in specifying end-to-end Data pipeline, integrating with ENGIE's Data ecosystem, and roadmapping AI use cases.

Paris, Fr

- Instructor in "Digital-Data-AI Transformation"- Co-instructor in "Developing Deeptechs: Challenges, Financing and Scalability"for the Master in Finance and Strategy at the School of Management and Impact

London, England, Gb

Vyntelligence is a smart voice and video notes platform to simplify and digitize data acquisition. Vyn uses AI to create actionable insights for operational and client engagement teams.

The AI4Copernicus EU project aims to bridge Artificial Intelligence with Earth Observation by developing use cases for Copernicus satellite imagery and data by researchers and innovators through the use of the AI4EU AI-on-demand platform.

Founding faculty member in the new MSc in Artificial Intelligence for Business Transformation (AIBT) with SKEMA Business School. Instructor in AI Fundamentals and Data Management.

London, Gb

Turning ROLI into a "data-inspired" organization.Managed ROLI's software ecosystem and data strategy working closely with executive management, product management, engineering and R&D, digital marketing, customer support, operations, and finance.

Online music creation and collaboration startupCreated app with new visual paradigm to enable musicians to create music easily and collaboratively on the Internet. Performed experiments with distributed real-time music performances. Designed musical style recognition algorithm for automatic accompaniment. Established partnerships with artists.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Led a team of 12 graduate students and 5 faculty members to foster research collaborations with international corporations, research and academic institutions, and grassroots organizations. Organized Design & Innovation workshops around the world. Mentored participants on the future of entertainment and digital storytelling. Secured sponsorships. Mentored team that received MIT Innovator of the Year Award.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Research Assistant in Prof. Barry Vercoe's Music, Mind and Machine group (9/2005 – 8/2011)Developed software to automatically predict music by listening to it. Created a network music performance system to enable musicians located at a distance to play with each other in real-time. This system was used in live performances between MIT, Stanford University, and India. Designed an online audio search engine based on cognitive associations between words and timbre in collaboration with the Freesound Project—a crowdsourced repository for sound. Published papers and gave talks at major conferences and venues on innovation, design, and technology, including at Google, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, EmTech, NIME, ASA.Research Affiliate with Prof. Mitch Resnick (9/2011 – 2/2015)Designed algorithms to expand the state of the art in machine listening for music analysis and synthesis: rhythm detection, pitch tracking, style identification, Western and non-Western music representation and classification. Researched new applications for real-time and asynchronous online music collaboration. Performed experiments with users to evaluate their music creation workflow.

Online music education startupSpearheaded IP creation and evangelized company technology; promoted culture of research and innovation through rapid prototyping; designed music technology stack for interactive sheet music and score following.

Gillingham, United Kingdom, Gb

Mobile Multimedia & Audio CompetencyManaged team of 15 in multimedia software design to support automotive infotainment projects in the US and Singapore. Defined strategy and roadmap in collaboration with centers in Kokomo, Ind. and Singapore. Led design reviews and system integration. Automated desk and bench verification, and unit testing of production-ready software. Demonstrated products at CES (Consumer Electronics Show), General Motors, Tata Motors. Prototyped Bluetooth hands-free telephony and navigation system with real-time XM Satellite video and data stream. Designed and developed software and hardware modules for speech-controlled automotive audio, communication and navigation systems for OnStar-enabled General Motors and Honda vehicles. Introduced UML (Unified Modeling Language) and Rapid Application Development to optimize Software Development Life Cycle. Coordinated multi-site development effort (India, US, Singapore, Sweden).

Neuilly-Sur-Seine, Fr

Implemented communication activities to promote firm’s technical expertise, create new fields of expertise, and generate new opportunities with prospective clients. Co-founded and managed the Digital Image and Signal Processing (DISiP) workgroup to discuss new technologies, cross-domain applications, and market opportunities. Led effort to set up interdisciplinary expert workgroups with consultants, clients, academics/researchers, and policy makers. Offered training, support, and coaching to junior consultants. Developed a coordination platform for Offshore Relationship Management and Software Subcontracting Management.

Eindhoven, Nl

Consumer Electronics & SemiconductorsDesigned and implemented audio processing algorithms, including stereo acoustic echo cancellation and MP3 decoding, on DSP chips for automotive electronics, audio receivers, and television sets. Defined R&D process and framework from research and floating-point implementation to fixed-point simulation and firmware. Managed ground truth data gathering, processing, and testing. Delivered OEM modules to Philips Speech Processing, Magnetti Marelli, and PSA Peugeot Citroën. Defined Configuration Management Plan and QA. Managed Offshore Software Development process with Philips Innovation Center in Bengaluru, India.

London, Gb

Wrote software to compute a new Mid-Cap index on the Paris stock exchange.

Paris, Fr

Wrote software and managed a 5-person software engineering, design, and marketing team that developed online futures trading software (CF Direct) for institutional clients. French National Service in International Cooperation as a Corporate Trainee (Coopérant du Service National en Entreprise).

Montrouge, -, Fr

Wrote client-server software to process answers to corporate actions.

Phd, Media Arts And Sciences

Sm, Media Technology

Dipl. Ing., Computer Science, Electronics, Automatic Systems

High School, Mathematics And Physics