Researcher on Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

CEA LIST

Biography

I am a research engineer at CEA LIST working on software safety applied to artificial intelligence. I completed my PhD thesis in november 2021, under the supervision of Guillaume Charpiat, Zakaria Chihani and Marc Schoenauer.

My research interests includes the use of formal verification to build trustworthy AI programs, and systems comprised of such programs. In particular, I investigate the practical applicability of formal verification to this endeavour. I also investigate the current limitations of the set of practices and knownledge coined under the word « Explainable AI ».

I am one of the main developper of CAISAR, a software that provides both an expressive specification language for machine-learning specification and serves as a front-end to various verification tools, à la Why3.

I am (and was) involved in several projects with applications.

You may download my CV here.

Open positions on Trustworthy AI (interns, PhD, fixed-term contracts) at CEA LIST. Send me a message for more infos!

Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Explainable AI
  • Formal Methods
  • Satisfaction Modulo Theory
  • Software Engineering

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2018-2021

    Université Paris-Saclay

  • « Diplôme d'ingénieur » (MEng french equivalent), 2014-2018

    ENSTA Paris

  • « Classes préparatoires », 2012-2014

    Lycée Massena, Nice

Skills

Python

I am proficient in Python and usual scientific libraries (numpy, scikit, pytorch), as well as Jupyter Notebook deployment

Functional programming

I am proficient in OCaml, and base understanding of Propositions as Types

Teaching

I like to teach and learn: I have multiple teaching experience and I enjoy learning, be it on my research topics or something else

Cooking

I am able to blitz a good meal usually vegetarian; I have a strong preference for mediterranean cuisine, but I also like to cook meals inspired by cambodian and japanese cuisine as well

Role-playing and tabletop game

I like to write and play tabletop RPG stories, and lose my mind watching players inventing completly different stories

Self-hosting

I delved a bit too much into self-hosting arcanes, and I maintain this website along with other services for me or my relatives.

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Research engineer

CEA LIST

Nov 2021 – Present Saclay, France
Conducting a common effort on a team to lead research and secure industrial contracts on the topic of safe artificial intelligence.
 
 
 
 
 

Teaching assistant

IUT Orsay

Feb 2020 – May 2020 France
Teacher assistant for design and implementation of human-machine interface, for a total of 28 hours worked (part of it remotely due to COVID-19 pandemic).
 
 
 
 
 

Teaching assistant

Telecom Paris

Oct 2019 – Jan 2020 France
Teacher assistant for deep learning course for master students. 12 hours worked.
 
 
 
 
 

Teaching assistant

ENSTA Paris

Nov 2018 – Dec 2019 France
Teacher assistant for C programming course for bachelor students, for a total of 30 hours worked.
 
 
 
 
 

PhD student

CEA LIST

Oct 2018 – Nov 2021 Saclay, France
Conducting research on formal methods applied to deep learning programs for verification