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General Information
Full Name | Nicolas MICHEL |
Date of Birth | 3rd December 1994 |
Languages | French, English, Japanese and Spanish notions. |
Education
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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
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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.
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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
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2012-2014 Classe Préparatoire MPSI/MP*
Fénelon Sainte-Marie, Paris, France - Intensive Maths and Physics studies
Experience
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2024 Teaching Assistant
ESIEE Paris, Paris, France - 3rd year classes (L3)
- Data science (python, numpy, sklearn)
- Optimisation et IA (python, keras)
- Introduction to Deep Learning (python, keras)
- Algorithms and Data structures (C)
- Project supervisor:FootTracker
- 1st year classes (L1)
- Micro-processors (ARM assembly language)
- Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (java)
- 3rd year classes (L3)
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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
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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
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2024- L3 Data science
ESIEE Paris, Paris, France - Python, Numpy, Sklearn. Original exercices from Jean-François Bercher
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2024 L3 Optimisation et IA
ESIEE Paris, Paris, France - Python, Keras
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2022-2024 L3 -
2024 L3 Introduction to Deep Learning
ESIEE Paris, Paris, France - Python, Keras, face detection and recognition
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2024 L3 Project Supervisor of FootTracker
ESIEE Paris, Paris, France - Analyzing soccer (football in French) to extract interesting stastics given player positions.
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2024 L1 Object-Oriented Programming
ESIEE Paris, Paris, France - Introduciton to Java OOP
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2024 L1 Micro-processing ARM
ESIEE Paris, Paris, France - ARM assembly programming
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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.
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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).