Victor Schmidt

About me

💡 I am a scientist and engineer, passionate about AI & sustainability. I created Entalpic with the amazing Mathieu Galtier (CEO) and Alexandre Duval (CSO) in 2024. Entalpic is an AI-driven discovery company for chemistry and material science, fostering greener and smarter industrial processes. We’re proud to build this company together with a team of smart, talented and caring people.

I love to cook (I’m a fan of Ottolenghi’s cookbooks), hike up (downhill sucks) and play tennis. I enjoy talking about everything, from politics (I heard it’s a French thing) and philosophy to prime numbers (did you know any prime squared is just 1 more than a multiple of 24?)

TL;DR Resume

I conducted my PhD 2019→2024 with Yoshua Bengio at Mila & Université de Montréal on Deep Learning Applications to Climate Change Mitigation. Prior to this PhD, I was a student at École polytechnique, France (Engineering degree - 2012→2016), and at University College London, UK (MSc. in Machine Learning - 2016→2017). I also worked for about a year as a Public Interest Entrepreneur at the French Ministry for the Econommy and Finance (2018).

Open source

I also love creating open-source libraries. I tend to be the kind of persons who will spend a week or a month automating something that takes a couple hours, and then make an open-source project out ouf it. This is how I came to build PaperMemory a web-based automated reference manager, minydra a minimalist Python argument parser, ntfy-wrapper a simple notification wrapper around the ntfy.sh service, or gitmopy an interactive CLI to make pretty commits following the Gitmoji specification.

In 2020, I co-founded codecarbon, an open-source library dedicated to estimated the carbon emissions of your code. After leading it through Data For Good France’s 9th season, I stepped back to be able to focus on my PhD studies. I am now part of the NGO’s board.

In a previous life, I also created metada.org, a website to visualize the hierarchies of ownership in the French media.