Research Scientist in NLP 2020-Present

Research Scientist at Nuance Communications. My role is to contribute to the improvement of Nuance's NLP solutions, particularly for chatbots. My main contributions include optimizing parameters to improve performance, as well as helping to maintain and update codebases.

In particular, most of my work has been on improving model performance on very small training sets without altering the model architecture. In short, I am looking at different techniques (simple data augmentation, complex data augmentation using generative models, Adversarial Training, Few-shot Learning, etc.).

Research Development Intern Winter 2020

Intern at Nuance Communications. My role for this internship was to contribute to the development of a proof of concept for Nuance's new computer vision projects. I worked on implementing state-of-the-art skeleton-based human pose recognition methods, as well as developping a method for human head pose estimation. For this project, I had to go through the whole design methodology for a deep learning problem: literature review, data annotation, data augmentation, implementation, transfer learning, debugging, optimization and development with HPC.

Intern - Software developper Summer 2018

Intern at Analogic Canada. My role consisted of developping image analysis algorithms to detect defects in X-Ray detectors using Python, as well as to translate legacy C++ code to Python and vice-versa. Furthermore, I automated the approval process of an X-ray detector following test results to speed up production. I also participated in organizing and managing the project using Scrum, as well as Sprints with weekly team meetings.

Research Intern in robotics September 2015 - May 2018

During my undergraduate studies, I was working part-time at the Research Group in Design, Machine Learning and Optimization for Mechatronic systems (COSIM) at Polytechnique Montreal. I worked on multiple projects, including the control of a robotic arm using facial recognition and the optimization of design parameters for the robust design of a quadrotor (drone). During the summer of 2017, this internship was complete in Melbourne, Australia, in collaboration with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).

Research Intern in Biomedical Imaging Summer 2015

After my first year of engineering, I had the opportunity to work at the Laboratory of Optical Diagnoses and Imagery (LODI) with Prof. Caroline Boudoux. My project consisted of designing a variable length reference arm for an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) system in order to reduce the noise in images without the use of slow software correction.

Member of PolyProject (Engineering student club) 2014-2018

The main goal of this student club is to complete a different innovative project every year. In my first year, the goal was to build a human-like robot arm and hand. The hand designed was only missing 3 of the human's hand Degrees of Freedom (DoF). In my second year, I had to work on the design of an interactive control system for the robotic hand. The prototype used a sensory glove using fiber optic in order to follow the hand's movements. In my third and fourth years, we worked on designing an intelligent system capable of monitoring the electricity usage in a standard home.

Additionally, I had the opportunity to fill a more administrative role in PolyProject.

• Treasurer (2016-2017)
• Director of Communications (2015-2016)