Jean-Francis Roy

Staff Applied Scientist - Machine Learning at Coveo

Québec, Quebec, Canada

About

Experience

  • Coveo (9 yrs 11 mos)
    • Staff Applied Scientist
      Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

    • R&D Director of Machine Learning
      Jan 2022 - Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    • Team Leader - Machine Learning
      Oct 2019 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Université Laval (10 yrs 1 mo)
    • M.Sc and Ph.D. researcher
      2008 - 2018 · 10 yrs

      Research in supervised and semi-supervised learning at GRAAL : Groupe de Recherche en Apprentissage Automatique de l'Université Laval. Student job funded by the CRSNG (Conseil de recherche en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada). Master funded by the FQRNT (Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies). First year of the Ph.D. funded by the Département d'informatique et de génie logiciel de l'Université Laval Following Ph.D. years funded by the FQRNT (Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies).

    • Course Lecturer
      2012 - 2016 · 4 yrs

      Course lecturer (teacher) for the following courses : - Mathématiques pour informaticiens (autumn 2012) - Algorithmes et structures de données (winter 2013) - Introduction à la programmation (winter 2014, autumn 2014, autumn 2015)

  • Core Team member at Funtoo Technologies
    2011 - 2014 · 3 yrs

    Funtoo Linux is a Linux distribution developed by Daniel Robbins and a core team of developers, built around a basic vision of improving the core technologies in Gentoo Linux. January 2012 to June 2012: Core Team Lead The Core Team Lead position is designed to share the opportunity and responsibility of running the project fairly, among all team members, and it is a great opportunity for Core Team members to grow in their skills and abilities. September 2011 to January 2012: Experimental Team Lead As the Experimental Team Leader, I lead the effort moving Funtoo forward to adopt new technologies like new GNU toolchains (GCC, glibc, binutils) and experimental software.

  • Machine Learning Research intern at Coveo
    Sep 2011 - Dec 2011 · 4 mos

    This research internship's goal is to apply machine learning techniques on Coveo's industrial problems.

  • Consultant at CGI
    Jan 2006 - Jan 2008 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Mainframe and VAX architectures consulting, telecommunication and finance systems support and development.