Sylvain Combettes
Senior Machine Learning Product Engineer
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
➤ I am a Senior Machine Learning Product Engineer at :probabl., the official brand operator of scikit-learn. ➤ I received my PhD in Mathematics from ENS Paris-Saclay in January 2024. My thesis is at the intersection of machine learning and time series. ➤ I received my Master of Science from Mines Nancy in 2020, with a focus in Mathematics and Data Science. I was awarded the Saint-Gobain Research Excellence Scholarship in 2020.
Work experience
Python for Data Science Lecturer
CentraleSupélec Exed
Oct 2024 - Present
2 years 1 month
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
24 hours for the "Développement Python pour l'apprentissage" class of the "Mastère Spécialisé® Intelligence Artificielle de Confiance".
Machine Learning Product Engineer
:probabl.
Oct 2024 - Present
2 years 1 month
Paris, France
➤ Probabl is the official brand operator of scikit-learn, the reference open-source machine learning Python library. Probabl is an "Entreprise à Mission de Souveraineté Industrielle et Numérique" and a spin-off of Inria. ➤ As a ML Product Engineer, I contribute to designing and developing an open-source python library called skore, a scikit-learn modeling companion.
Python for Data Science Lecturer
Polytechnique
Oct 2022 - Present
4 years 1 month
91120 Palaiseau, France
~60 hours (cumulated) for the "Python for Data Science" class of the X-HEC Data Science for Business (DSB) MSc&T.
Data Science Lecturer
Ecole Polytechnique Executive Education
May 2021 - Present
5 years 6 months
91120 Palaiseau, France
~100 hours (cumulated) for the Data Science Starter Program (DSSP) and the Master Spécialisé Innovation & Entrepreneurship (MSIE).
École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay
Nov 2020 - Oct 2024
4 years
91400 Saclay, France
Postdoctoral Researcher in Machine Learning
Mar 2024 - Oct 2024
8 months
91400 Saclay, France
➤ Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre Borelli research lab under the supervision of Laurent Oudre. ➤ Role: pedagogical engineer and product manager for the BrevetAI of SaclAI-School (DATAIA Institute), an educational platform for AI acculturation through a learning-by-doing approach, aimed at students of the University of Paris-Saclay. ➤ Team of approx. 10 members: pedagogical engineers, software engineers, and UX/UI designers.
PhD Student in Machine Learning
Nov 2020 - Mar 2024
3 years 5 months
91400 Saclay, France
[See the education section for a description.]
Research internship supervisor
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
4 months
91400 Saclay, France
Supervision of a research internship for a normalien student from the Mathematics Department.
Teaching Assistant in Mathematics and Statistics
Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
5 months
Paris, France
36 hours for the Bachelor's degree in Economics and Management, both Classical Track and College of Economics.
Data Scientist
Artefact
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
7 months
Paris, France
Consulting for a major food-products corporation: demand sensing for new products with very few historical sales data (« cold start »).
Data Scientist
Servier
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
4 months
92150 Suresnes, France
R&D at a major pharmaceutical company: generating fictitious realistic patient data with generative adversarial networks (GANs).
Education
ENS Paris-Saclay
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
2020 - 2024
3 years 5 months
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy
Master of Science - MS
2017 - 2020
3 years 2 months
Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles
2014 - 2017
3 years 2 months
Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Baccalauréat général
2011 - 2014
3 years 2 months