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General Information

Full Name Nicolas MICHEL
Date of Birth 3rd December 1994
Languages French, English, Japanese and Spanish notions.

Education

  • 2021-2024
    PhD - Online Continuous Image Classification with Memory-based Methods, application to YouTube data
    Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France
    • Online Continual Learning for Image Classification
    • Memory-based methods
    • Probabilistic Modeling of the Cross-Entropy loss function
    • Stability-plasticity trade-off
    • Collection and experiments on real YouTube data
  • 2017-2018
    Exchange Semester
    The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
    • Exchange semester at the University of Tokyo, 1st Japanese university, in the Information Science and Technology department.
    • Integration of the AIZAWA-YAMASAKI lab.
    • First author of a domestic research paper and speaker at an IEICE conference in Okinawa, Japan.
    • Computer Vision, NLP, Machine Learning and Differential Privacy.
  • 2014-2018
    Engineering Degree
    Institut Mines-Telecom Atlantique, Nantes, France
    • Major in Computer Science for Decision Support
    • Optimization Algorithms (traveling salesman problem, etc.)
    • Statistics and Probabilities
    • Project Management
  • 2012-2014
    Classe Préparatoire MPSI/MP*
    Fénelon Sainte-Marie, Paris, France
    • Intensive Maths and Physics studies

Experience

  • 2024
    Teaching Assistant
    ESIEE Paris, Paris, France
    • 3rd year classes (L3)
    • 1st year classes (L1)
      • Micro-processors (ARM assembly language)
      • Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (java)
  • 2023
    Visiting Scientist
    The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
    • Visiting Scientist in the Computer Vision and Media Lab (CVM)
    • Worked with Prof. Yamasaki in the YAMASAKI-lab
    • Research topics
      • Online Continual Learning
      • Mutual Learning
      • Adversarial Training
      • Impact of Image Generation on Continual Learners
  • 2020 - now
    Data Science Mentoring
    OpenClassrooms
    • OpenClassrooms \& CentralSupélec (M2)
    • Management of data science projects and scientific follow-up
    • Projects include data processing, univariate analysis, multivariate analysis, data visualization, supervised ML, RF, SVM, XGB, data encoding, unsupervised ML, t-SNE, k-means, DBSCAN, hierarchical clustering, transfer learning, SIFT, ORB, LSTM, cloud model deployment (AWS)
  • 2020
    Data Scientist
    Faurecia, Paris, France
    • Digital Services Factory (DSF) of Faurecia, one of the first global automotive suppliers worldwide
    • The DSF team, composed of 60 engineers aims to bring new AI skills.
    • pecific involvements include ML applied to verbal aggressivity detection, DL applied to driver distraction detection and passenger presence detection. Model optimization. Inference on NVIDIA Jetson boards.
  • 2018 - 2019
    Research Engineer
    Wassa, Paris, France
    • Part of the innovation team of Wassa, a digital company of 30 employees.
    • The R&D team, composed of 4 researchers, ensures the quality of Wassa algorithms by using state-of-the-art CV techniques.
    • Specific involvements include Deep Learning applied to Gender Recognition, Age Prediction and Object Detection. HoG for pedestrian detection, TS forecasting.
  • 2017 - 2018
    Deep Learning Intern
    So-net Media Networks, Tokyo, Japan
    • Part-time research internship at So-net Media Networks (SMN), a SONY subsidiary of 1000 employees specialized in Online Advertising.
    • Implementation of a tool in Python to classify advertisement images regarding their efficiency.
    • Training of several Deep Learning models using PyTorch.
    • Experience training on a remote GPU using CUDA.
    • Reading and understanding several Deep Learning research papers.
    • Worked with a database of 40,000 ad images.

Teaching

  • 2024- L3
    Data science
    ESIEE Paris, Paris, France
  • 2024 L3
    Optimisation et IA
    ESIEE Paris, Paris, France
    • Python, Keras
  • 2022-2024 L3
    Algorithms and Data structures
    ESIEE Paris, Paris, France
    • C programming, complexity, code coverage
  • 2024 L3
    Introduction to Deep Learning
    ESIEE Paris, Paris, France
    • Python, Keras, face detection and recognition
  • 2024 L3
    Project Supervisor of FootTracker
    ESIEE Paris, Paris, France
    • Analyzing soccer (football in French) to extract interesting stastics given player positions.
  • 2024 L1
    Object-Oriented Programming
    ESIEE Paris, Paris, France
    • Introduciton to Java OOP
  • 2024 L1
    Micro-processing ARM
    ESIEE Paris, Paris, France
    • ARM assembly programming
  • 2023 M1
    Project Supervisor of Youtube DeepMetaData
    ESIEE Paris, Paris, France
  • 2022 M1
    Project Supervisor of YouTube Catalogue.
    ESIEE Paris, Paris, France
    • Supervising student working on scraping and organizing YouTube data.
  • 2021 M2
    Time Series & Machine Learning
    ESIEE Paris, Paris, France
    • Teaching Machine Learning concepts to final year engineer students for time series forecasting (LSTM, transformers, etc.)

Publications

Other Interests

  • Sports: Swimming, Hiking, Badminton.
  • Video Games: Super Smash Bros Melee, Don't Starve, Barony, Despot's Game, Another Crab's Treasure, Going Under, Balatro, Ember Knights, and many many others.
  • Hobbies: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition (as a player only, for now).