Professional Experience

Research Experience

2023 - Present
Senior Researcher - Multimodal AI
Huawei Suomi Finland Research Center, Helsinki

Leading research on multimodal AI systems with focus on video understanding, video generation, and autonomous systems.

  • Video Generation: Built and shipped production-scale video generation models using VLMs and diffusion architectures on ModelArts MLOps platform
  • Training Infrastructure: Designed end-to-end training pipelines with containerized environments and reproducible experimentation playbooks
  • ReWind (CVPR 2025): Co-developed a large language model for long video understanding with instructed learnable memory
  • OCR & Multimodal Perception: Spearheaded OCR capabilities, deploying multimodal perception models across multiple languages
  • 4D LiDAR Generation: Working on OmniLiDAR for controllable and multi-sensor 4D LiDAR generation (submitted to ECCV 2026)
PyTorch ModelArts VLMs Diffusion CVPR 2025
2021 - 2023
R&D Engineer - Robotics & Sensor AI
IRISA Lab UMR 6074, Rennes, France

Deep learning research for kinematic time series analysis and robotics applications.

  • Designed deep learning pipelines for kinematic time series analysis, reconstructing pen trajectories from motion sensor data using TCNs
  • Published in International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR)
  • Optimized DNNs on resource-constrained edge devices for real-time sensor processing
  • Collaborated in Franco-German initiative, translating perception models into engineering roadmaps
TCN Sensor Fusion Edge AI
2019 - 2021
Lecturer & Researcher - Deep Learning & 3D AI
ETIS Lab UMR 8051, Cergy Paris University, France

Combined research and teaching responsibilities with focus on deep learning and 3D modeling.

  • Led R&D on UNet-based architectures for visual perception and 3D modeling of ancient maps
  • Versailles-FP dataset: Wall Detection in Ancient Floor Plans (ICDAR 2021)
  • Supervised Master's research on neural network optimization and multimodal learning
UNet 3D Modeling Deep Learning
2018 - 2019
R&D Engineer - Document AI
LITIS Lab EA 4108, Rouen, France

Research and development in historical document analysis and information extraction (EURHISFIRM project).

  • Developed production DNN pipelines for named entity extraction from historical documents
  • Implemented scalable data preprocessing and model training workflows with automated evaluation
  • Published in Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2020)
NER Document AI Historical Documents

Patents

AI-Journalist: Apparatus to Generate Media Contents Conditioned to User Preferences Settings

Patent Submitted

Novel system for generating personalized media content using AI, conditioned on user preference settings for targeted content delivery.

Pending

Academic Supervision

Mentoring the next generation of researchers through supervision of doctoral and master's students:

Name Degree Subject Institution Date
Florent Imbert Doctoral Pen trajectory reconstruction IRISA 2021-2022
Jafar Mansori Post-doc Unsupervised text data exploration ETIS 2019-2021
Andrianavalona Harinaivo Master 2 Ancient map image segmentation (Deep Learning) ETIS 2020-2021

Collaboration: CY Cergy Paris Université (France) / Zhejiang University (China)

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