Hi! I'm Thomas Robert

I am currently the R&D Team Lead & Deep Learning Research Engineer at Heuritech R&D Lab.

I defended my PhD on Deep Learning for Computer Vision from Sorbonne University (MLIA / LIP6) in October 2019.

A few things about me...

I love Computer Science

I started coding 11 years ago through web development and keep working on it has a hobby

I love Machine Learning

It's an incredible tool to solve complex problems

I love challenges

I am looking for innovative research & development projects using deep learning

I love learning and sharing

That's why I did a PhD and taught at my university

My skills

Machine Learning & Data Science

  • Deep Learning
  • Data Science
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Keras
  • Matlab
  • Scikit-learn
  • Hadoop / Spark

Programming

  • Theoretical knowledge
  • Python
  • Java
  • Scala
  • C / C++
  • Bash
  • Git / SVN

Web

  • Theoretical knowledge
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • JavaScript
  • HTML5
  • CSS3

Softwares

Systems

  • Windows / OS X / Linux
  • Network
  • System Administration

Office

  • Microsoft Office
  • LaTeX
  • OpenOffice

Communication

Languages

  • French
  • English
  • Spanish

Management

  • Team work & Team Leadership
  • IT Project Management
  • Quality Management

Hobbies

  • DIY, gardening, electronics
  • Watching scientific videos
  • Reading and TV Shows
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Experiences

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Type of experience:
  • Education
  • Professional
  • Associative
  • Personal project
Keywords:
  • Machine Learning
  • Research
  • Web
  • Big Data
  • Statistics
  • Business Intelligence
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Machine Learning Research

R&D Team Lead & Research engineer in Deep Learning

Heuritech – Paris, France

Nov. 2019 Current

Working in the R&D lab of Heuritech, a fashion tech company providing trends data to the fashion industry.

R&D Team Lead since June 2020.

Machine Learning Research

PhD in Deep Learning

LIP6 lab, Sorbonne University (prev. Pierre and Marie Curie University) – Paris, France

2019 3 years

Improving Latent Representations of ConvNets for Visual Understanding - Slides

Jury:

Thesis Slides

Machine Learning Research

Research engineer then PhD student in Deep Learning

LIP6 lab, Sorbonne University (prev. Pierre and Marie Curie University) – Paris, France

2019 4 years

Supervised by Matthieu Cord and Nicolas Thome

Work on the ANR projects VISIIR; et DeepVision in partnership with the LIRIS (INSA Lyon, France), the Simon Fraser University (Canada) and the University of Guelph (Canada).

  • Work on recipe image classification. Creation of a demonstration website of the classifier
  • Teaching work (64h / year): in charge of multiple courses, writing of convolutional networks practical sessions subjects
  • Submission to the workflow challenge of the M2CAI (MICCAI 2016) workshop with Remi Cadène : classification of surgical operation step based on endosopic videos. 2nd best model submitted.
  • Regularization of deep neural networks with Michael Blot. Published at ICIP 2018 (best paper award).
    SHADE: Information-Based Regularization for Deep Learning
  • Improvement of semi-supervised learning models based on auto-encoders. Published at ECCV 2018.
    HybridNet: Classification and Reconstruction Cooperation for Semi-Supervised Learning
  • Work on disentangling model for generation.
    DualDis: Dual-Branch Disentangling with Adversarial Learning

Publications Teaching

Research Web

DjLu

2016

DjLu is a simple and open source tool to organize for bibliographical library. It has been developed with Micael Carvalho and Rémi Cadène.

  • Tools used: HTML / CSS / Javascript / PHP / Git

Website

Machine Learning Big Data Statistics Research

Data Science research internship

Conviva – San Francisco Bay, California, USA

2015 6 months

Work on various research problems about video streaming quality optimization using data science

  • Prediction of the optimal video quality for a given session using Machine Learning and A/B testing
  • Formulation and resolution of an *optimization problem to determine optimal decisions Conviva’s products should take
  • Statistical study of bandwidth evolution in the context of Conviva’s products
  • Technologies: Python, Hive, Hadoop MapReduce, Spark
Machine Learning Statistics

Double degree in Data Science

National Institute of Applied Sciences & University of Rouen, France

2015 5 years

Master’s degree (“diplôme d’ingénieur”) in Data Science
Master’s degree in Multimedia Information Processing System

  • Preparatory cycle (2 years)
  • Engineering cycle in ASI department (3 years)
  • Master’s complementary classes (1 year in parallel of INSA)
Machine Learning Big Data Statistics Research

Data-scientist intern

Creative Data – Rouen, France

Summer 2014 14 weeks

  • Self-training on Big Data concepts, architectures and technologies (Hadoop ecosystem).
  • Deployments of Big Data clusters on Google Cloud Platform.
  • Statistical work on the data of an e-commerce platform provider to give them some business intelligence insight about the shops they are hosting.
  • Benchmark of various Machine Learning algorithms to predict the next item of a sequence for a provider of portable self-scanning solution for retailers (use of Matlab & Python’s scikit-learn). Reading of Machine Learning literature.
Business Intelligence Web

Development of a web geo-analysis tool for SOLAP data - Academic project

For the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg

2014 $26 weeks$ 27h/week

  • Development of an open-source user-friendly web solution to analyze geographical SOLAP data over its various dimensions. Integration inside the GeoNode software.
  • Academic Research & Development project carried out for the LIST as client.
  • Project carried out with agile software development method (Scrum) with ISO 9001 quality standard.
  • Leader of a group of 7 students and responsible of relations with a subcontractor team of 8 students during half of the project. Developer during the other half.
  • Use of Git, JavaScript (d3.js, dc.js, crossfilter), Python (Django), Java, MDX, GeoMondrian.

Blog post Demo GitHub organization for the project

Web

PGPic

2014

  • Contribution to the development of PGPic, a web tool for quality and project management.
  • Used by all PIC teams on a daily basis (PICs are professional projects such as TUDOR project presented above. There is 6 PIC projects each year.)
  • Developed skills: HTML / CSS3 / PHP / MySQL / Javascript
BPM

Analyst-developer intern

SOPRA Group – Insurance Agency – La Défense (Paris area), France

Summer 2013 9 weeks

  • In the domain of BPM (Business Process Modelling) mission of analyst-developer in a buisness context of employee savings management. Support of a senior business consultant.
  • Participation to work groups with the client (2 days a week) to determine their needs.
  • Modeling and optimization of core businesses processes in accordance with BMPN 2.0 standard.
  • Writing of detailled specifications of the activities.
  • Input of processes on the workflow software Bonita, and programming of forms and scripts to follow the process and validate the input data in accordance with the database. Use of Groovy and MySQL.
  • Creation of a web conversion tool beetween the output format of the process and the input format of the client’s management software. Use of PHP, MySQL, jQuery, Bootstrap and FTP.

General Secretary

AJIR (Association Junior INSA Rouen) – Rouen, France

Feb. 2013 - Feb. 2014 1 year

AJIR is an association that puts in touch students and companies to carry out professional projects in engineering fields (IT, mechanics, energetics, chemistry, etc.).

  • Responsible of *association and administrative management
  • Responsible of *Board of Directors meetings
  • Humain Ressources Manager
  • Administrative paperwork
  • etc.
Web

Website of AEI

Feb. 2013

  • Creation of a website for Association of INSA Students (AEI) throw AJIR with another student.
  • Experience of the realisation of a project for a real client.
  • Website created as a Wordpress template.
  • Developed skills: HTML / CSS3 / PHP / Javascript / Wordpress

See the website

Web

Website of AJIR

2012

  • Creation of the website for AJIR (Junior-Entreprise association) as a Wordpress template.
  • Creation of a plugin to manage membership workflow (quite heavy in Junior-Enterprises) in order to lighten HR work
  • Developed skills: HTML / CSS3 / PHP / Javascript / Wordpress

See the website

Chief Information Officer

AJIR (Association Junior INSA Rouen) – Rouen, France

Feb. 2012 - Feb. 2014 2 years

AJIR is an association that puts in touch students and companies to carry out professional projects in engineering fields (IT, mechanics, energetics, chemistry, etc.).

Support and improvement of the Information System of the Junior-Entreprise (sysadmin work & developpement of a new website).

Worker training period

Maintenance center of the French National Railway Company (SNCF) – Rouen, France

Summer 2011 1 month

Support of the brake team in its daily work. Discover of the working world.

Web

BookINSA

2011

  • Creation of a website simplifying the loan of books between students. Realized as a school project with a team.
  • Use of Facebook API for login and several API to get informations on the books from the ISBNs.
  • Relatively complex SQL queries.
  • Developed skills: HTML / CSS3 / PHP / MySQL / Javascript

Employee in the facility management department

Sogécap (Société Générale) – La Défense (Paris area), France

Summer 2010 1 month

Support of the facility management department (mail delivery in the office, orders, stock handing, etc.).

High-school scientific diploma (“baccalauréat scientifique”) with honors

Lycée d’Arsonval – Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Paris area), France

2010

Revision recaps

2009-2015

  • Writing (and publishing) of revision recaps of almost all my courses since last year of high-school until Master’s degree.
  • Developed skills: Word 2010 / Inkscape

See the recaps

Web

iGoogle plugin for BetaSeries

2010

  • Plugin to manage a BetaSeries account (website to check which episodes of your series you have seen or not) for iGoogle.
  • Developed skills: HTML / CSS / PHP / XML / Javascript
Web

Who's who

2010

  • Creation of a visual and interactive “who’s who” of the employees of Sogecap sorted alphabetically or by department.
  • Thought as simple as possible for HR: the pages are generated from pictures files named with people name and position in the compagny.
  • Cached HTML output for optimization.
  • Developed skills: HTML / CSS / PHP
Web

ThemeSgen

2010

  • Bilingual website listing themes and wallpapers for all video games consoles.
  • Important website allowing to read different contents (news, themes, wallpapers, surveys), each separated in categories.
  • Creation of an original design in accordance with Mediagen corporate identity.
  • Cache handling for performance.
  • Integration of a phpBB forum in the website.
  • Complete administration backend allowing:
    • Content production workflow (writing, correction, validation)
    • Smart files (themes and images) processing to reduce production time
    • Fine grain user access rights handling
    • Etc.
  • Developed skills: HTML / CSS / PHP / MySQL / Javascript

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