Maxence Ernoult

Senior Research Engineer @ Google DeepMind

Paris, Île-de-France, France

About

*Please reach out by email* My research interests revolve around physics for AI and AI for physics, with a keen focus on AI hardware design. I am always happy to chat around these topics or provide more general career advice, so don't hesitate to reach out directly on my personal email address [email protected].

Experience

  • Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    Working on AI-assisted AI hardware design.

  • Rain AI (2 yrs 4 mos)
    • Principal Research Engineer
      Jun 2024 - Jan 2025 · 8 mos

    • Research Scientist
      Oct 2022 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Co-developing algorithms and analog/digital hardware for scalable neural networks inference and training. - Main achievements: provided engineering support across three different teams, filed two patents as primary author, co-authored four research publications (NeurIPS 2023, NeurIPS 2024, main conference and workshops), won one best workshop paper award, built an internal libraries for quantization-aware training and second-order optimization, built an academic partnership with Mila, lead multiple academic collaborations. - Fields covered: Xyce simulations, quantization algorithms, second-order optimization, bilevel optimization, energy-based learning, implicit models.

  • Research Staff Member at IBM
    Mar 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

    IBM Research Paris-Saclay, working on AI safety. Fields covered: uncertainty quantification, out-of-distribution detection, model calibration, object detection. Mostly product-oriented (unpublished) research.

  • Research Fellow at Mila - Institut Québécois d'Intelligence Artificielle
    Nov 2020 - Feb 2021 · 4 mos

    Working (remotely) under the supervision of Yoshua Bengio and Blake Richards on biologically plausible deep learning. https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.13415 (accepted to ICML 2022)

  • Ph.D Student at Sorbonne Université
    May 2017 - Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    See description in the education section.