Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Executive AI Leader passionate about the use of new technologies and science. I focus on customer-centric needs, technology strategy and product roadmaps.
Leading the Technology Vision and Product Roadmap CarbonForge reduces energy-driven inference OPEX while preserving latency and model quality. We plug into your existing compile/deploy path (compiler IR layer) and output standard artifacts your serving pipeline already consumes. No rewrite. No new framework. No ops rebuild.
CREATING 3D CITIES AND LARGE SCALE SIMULATED WORLDS / MAPS WITH AI - Leading the technology, product roadmaps and R&D effort to develop BrightEarth, a scalable AI platform generating 3D digital twins and maps at scale on demand from satellite and aerial imagery. The product was launched and commercially available since Feb 2025 with a cloud and on premise version. - Targeted market segments Telecom, Defence & Security, Urban planning, Smart Cities, Climate Tech, Environmental Impact, Wildfire, Flooding … Technologies : Deep Learning, DRL, (CNNs, Transformers, Diffusion Models, Mamba) LLMs, VLMs, World Models, Computer Vision, Deep Learning; Point Cloud & Lidar Lod2 pipelines, Omniverse, Unreal - Building a competitive edge by designing new AI models with teams. - Working with customers and partners with sales, and product managers
CREATING 3D SIMULATED WORLDS FOR FLIGHT SIMULATORS WITH AI, TRAINING & SIMULATION, AEROSPACE, D&S, GEOINT Enterprise Global AI Strategy and Innovations
Presagis (CAE subsidiary) is a world leader in 3D modeling, simulation and artificial intelligence (AI). Products offers realistic, accurate and large-scale 3D synthetic scene content for digital twins and simulation, leveraging AI to enable informed, efficient and intelligent decision-making. Training, D&S, Climate Tech, Wildfire, Flooding As a CTO, I was leading the overall technical and product roadmap and all the R&D effort at the intersections artificial intelligence (Deep Learning), computer graphics (3D), computer vision, simulation and cloud. In November 2022 and February 2023 we launched several new products on the market (VELOCITY 5D SaaS Platform, VELOCITY 5D for Unreal, and we are building VELOCITY 5D for Omniverse) for automatic 3D content creation for digital twins and simulation. Our products notably exploit NeRF, Generative AI (GANs & Diffusion Models, LLM), Transformers, CNNs, OpenUSD, CDB, 3D tiles, Unreal 5, NVIDIA Omniverse. I am representing the company and promoting our products in various conferences and I am part as well on several working group at the Open Geospatial Consortium, the USGIF Game and Modeling & Simulation Working Group, the Metaverse Standards forum, Digital Twin Consortium, the Autonomy Institute.
CREATING NEW AI SOFTWARE PARADIGM FOR DL (ex: Automatic Differentiation programming language Myia) Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, is recognized worldwide for its major contributions to AI., Mila is the world’s largest academic research center for deep learning. Mila, the AI institute, was founded by Professor Yoshua Bengio (winner of the Turing Prize, known as the “Nobel Prize for Computing” for Deep Learning). Inspiring the development of AI for the benefit of all Located in the heart of Quebec’s AI ecosystem, Mila is a community of more than 1,200 researchers specializing in machine learning and dedicated to scientific excellence and innovation. At Mila, I led 2 teams: - A cutting edge software development team conceptualizing and creating innovation for AI breakthroughs (software & hardware), including Theano, the precursor of TensorFlow and Pytorch, and other frameworks allowing users to leverage GPGPU (general purpose graphics processing unit) and DeepLearning at scale; - An AI dedicated HPC infrastructure team managing cloud resources and on-site important computing platforms.
At Autodesk, I managed multi-disciplinary teams and collaborated with other teams to investigate, prototype and put in production innovative, high-impact solutions for our products. We put into practice product innovation methodologies, which were based on Design Thinking (Luma) and Rapid Prototyping and Lean Innovation approaches, while seeking to innovate when possible with our business ecosystem (Open Innovation). For example, with our flagship product Autodesk Revit Live https://www.autodesk.com/products/revit-live/overview, architectural firms could bring their work to life by creating immersive beautiful visualizations! You could move in real time inside, see, manipulate and operate different objects. We worked on: - Artificial Intelligence, machine mearning and deep learning - Computer vision - Different CAD formats - 3D rendering engine - Virtual reality and augmented reality (AR / VR) with HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, HoloLens, Google Card Board, Daydream, Tango ... - Cloud services and micro-services and Autodesk Forge - webgl2 - webVR - 3ds Max enhancements - Storytelling