Benoit A.

B.Eng. M.A.Sc. Senior Applied Scientist | Machine Learning (NLP)

Canada

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Experience

  • Coveo (Permanent Full-time · 4 yrs 10 mos)
    • Senior Applied Scientist | Machine Learning (NLP)
      Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Question Answering, Information Retrieval, Semantic Search, Generative AI, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

    • Applied Scientist | Machine Learning (NLP)
      Sep 2021 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Question Answering, Information Retrieval, Semantic Search

  • Machine Learning Research Intern at Forschungszentrum Jülich
    May 2018 - Aug 2018 · 4 mos

    -Analyze multivariate data and perform statistical tests on multimodal brain images -Fuse multimodal medical images (PET/fMRI/DTI) and prepare them for machine learning algorithms -Implement and test multimodal machine learning algorithms for classification of healthy controls and (Schizophrenia/Tourette) patients -Visualize data in high dimensionality -Develop a multimodal data coregistration pipeline -Participate in the elaboration of 2 abstracts for the 6th Resting State and Brain Connectivity Conference

  • Machine Learning Research Intern at Coveo
    Jan 2018 - Apr 2018 · 4 mos

    -Design, implement and test a new ecommerce/recommendation machine learning model using Apache Spark -Benchmark multiple machine learning/data mining algorithms such as ALS (Alternating Least Squares), LSH (Locality Sensitive Hashing), FP-Growth (Frequent Pattern Growth) and test their scalability -Code a REST API to serve the recommendation model in a demo environment and deploy the model -Perform big data (millions of entries) preparation and analysis for machine learning algorithms -Develop a recommendation model evaluation framework and identify relevant metrics

  • Teaching Assistant at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)
    Sep 2017 - Dec 2017 · 4 mos

    -Assist the students in understanding the practical work of the course GTI310 - Multimedia data structures -Evaluate the practical work of software development delivered by the students -Have excellent knowledge of the different data structures and algorithms of compression, search and sorting -Have excellent knowledge of the different representations of multimedia data

  • Software Engineering Intern at Coveo
    May 2016 - Aug 2016 · 4 mos

    -Develop and maintain features for a distributed analytics Java backend accepting millions of events -Integrate StatsD metrics for requests monitoring -Develop unit and functional tests -Use multiple AWS services such as DynamoDB and Kinesis Streams