Clément Sicard

🇫🇷 data professional living in 🇨🇭, with international experience in {🇺🇸,🇨🇭,🇫🇷,🇸🇪}

Lausanne, Switzerland

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About

With a background in theoretical machine learning and experience in Big Data and software engineering, I strive in both AI/ML and Data Engineering roles. I have worked for 5+ years on a wide range of technical projects in a variety of different fields: giga-scale battery manufacturing, academic research, consulting, environmental services, financial services, startups and international organisations. I aim to leverage my experience to help companies build and deploy data products, while having a positive impact on society, especially on social justice and climate change mitigation. My research interests focus on deep learning and its applications to multimodal data for action recognition tasks, with a stress on audio.

Work Experience

New York University
New York, 🇺🇸

09.2023 - Now

Deep Learning Research @ Music & Audio Research Lab (MARL)

Research on online multimodal audio-visual scene understanding with neuro-symbolic learning • Focus on off-scene events in egocentric videos using visual and audio transformers. Tech stack: Python, PyTorch, HPC

United Nations
New York, 🇺🇸
Remote

03.2023 - 09.2023

NLP Research

Semantic analysis then named entity recognition on all sorts of documents from UN Digital Library • Search engine as a network visualization, linking docs by refined topics, member state, cross-references… Tech stack: Python, Hugging Face, PyTorch, TypeScript, React.js, Sigma.js, Neo4j, Docker

Northvolt
Stockholm, 🇸🇪
Remote

07.2022 - 09.2023

Data Science/Engineering Consultant

ELT data ingestion pipelines on AWS stack (Lambda, Redshift, RDS, Kinesis, Firehose, DynamoDB, S3) • Data modelling in SQL for a fully-automated battery manufacturing gigafactory Tech stack: Python, AWS Cloud Stack, Golang, SQL, dbt, Streamlit, Pandas, Looker, Kubernetes, Docker, Scala

swissQuant Group
Zurich, 🇨🇭

12.2020 - Now

Quant Engineer (Software & Maintenance)

Supporting maintenance of a risk engine software • Contributed to a financial risk engine and developed an engine performance monitoring dashboard for daily reports • Tech stack: Python, Bazel, Vue.js, Pandas, Plotly, Java, Jenkins, GCP Cloud Stack, Kubernetes

Green PRAXIS
Marseille, 🇫🇷
Remote

04.2020 - 07.2022

Lead Engineer (Software & Data)

Worked on crawling, cleaning and ingestion of geographical data to feed a statistical biodiversity model • Developed a cross-platform app and model to support our biology experts team with ML recommendations. Tech stack: Dart, Python, TypeScript, IBM Cloud Stack, MongoDB, Redis, Plotly, Flutter, QGIS, GeoPandas

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Lausanne, 🇨🇭

2010 - 2012

Research Assistant @ Digital & Cognitive Musicology Lab (DCML)

Contributed to the ms3 Python library, part of PyPi to convert several music sheet formats into XML • Contributed to a corpora of classical pieces, performing analysis and classification on music metadata. Tech stack: Python, SQL, BeautifulSoup, Pandas, Selenium

Education

ETH Zurich

2021 - 2024
MSc. in Computer Science. Focus on AI/ML theory & research. Core courses incl. Deep and Reinforcement Learning, Probabilistic AI, Big Data, XAI, Social Data Science

New York University

2021 - 2024
MSc. Thesis @ Music & Audio Research Lab (MARL) under the supervision of Prof. Juan P. Bello

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

2017 - 2021
BSc. in Communication Systems. Core Courses incl. Calculus, Algebra, Signal Processing, Object-Oriented Programming, Probabilities, Statistics

Skills

Python
Data Engineering
Deep Learning
Software Engineering
PyTorch
Machine Learning
SQL
Big Data
dbt
Scala
Spark
AWS
Pandas
Golang
Docker
Flutter
Dart

Projects

SemUN

A full-stack semantics-powered search platform for the United Nations' Digital Library

Python
HuggingFace
Neo4j
Docker
FastAPI
spaCy
React.js

Spaiche: Extending State-of-the-Art ASR Models to Swiss German Dialects

State-of-the-art model for Swiss German dialects speech recognition, with a novel loss function based on semantic distance in the embedding space. Presented at SwissText 2023

Research paper
Speech recognition
Python
PyTorch
HuggingFace

USwinBaseNet

Combining visual transformers and U-shaped networks for segmentation tasks

Research paper
Image segmentation
Python
PyTorch
HuggingFace
HPC

opti-stem-programs

Machine-learning-assisted creation of optimally located STEM programs in the city of Chicago

Research paper
Interactive ML
Python
PyTorch
Flutter
FastAPI
Docker

undl

A lightweight Python library to inreact with the United Nations' Digital Library API

Research paper
Image segmentation
Python
PyTorch
HuggingFace
HPC

air-quality-forecasting

Using data we measured using sensors linked to a Raspberry Pi, we derived an LSTM model to predict air quality in Zurich and compared its performance with other more basic models

Research paper
Time-series forecasting
Python
PyTorch
Raspberry Pi
HPC

un-ml-pipeline

Machine Learning pipeline and API for the United Nations Digital Library

Python
HuggingFace
FastAPI
Docker

un-semun-unbist-vis

Interactive UNBIS Thesaurus taxonomy visualization

TypeScript
React.js
Sigma.js

fgsm-attacks

Targeted and untargeted FGSM attacks on pre-trained Neural Networks

Python
PyTorch
Reliable & Trustworthy AI

pgd-trades-defenses

PGD and TRADES defenses for adversarial-attacks-resistant Neural Networks

Python
PyTorch
Reliable & Trustworthy AI

GameBoj

End-to-end GameBoy emulator developed from scratch in Java, from hardware specifications to software implementation

Java

tetris-nios

Tetris implementation on Gecko FPGA boards, using NIOS II softcore processor

Java

AutoMove

Python script running in background for macOS, to automatically move Notability backups from either a OneDrive directory or a NAS to an iCloud directory, in realtime.

TypeScript
React.js
Sigma.js

constrained-dtw

Python implementation of constrained Dynamic Warping Algorithm

TypeScript
React.js
Sigma.js

StudyHelper

StudyHelper is a mobile (iOS, Android) and desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux) application that aims at helping learning course material with the mean of flashcards

Flutter
Dart
macOS
iOS

WhereIsWaldo

Java program able to locate Waldo on given images, using pattern recognition and basic image processing

Java

PyACME

Implementation of an ACMEv2 (RFC-8555) client in Python, to automate the process of issuing and renewing TLS X.509 certificates with Let's Encrypt.

Python
Flask
macOS
iOS

SeniorLauncher

An easy-to-use and lightweight Android launcher designed using Flutter, for seniors who are not familiar with technology

Flutter
Dart
macOS
iOS
Android

c-priority-queues

Generic priority queues implementation in C language.

C

SmallDB

Small database management application developed in C

C