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General Information
Full Name | Victor Schmidt |
Languages | French (mother tongue), English (fluent), Spanish (intermediate), Arabic (beginner) |
Currently
Occupation | Co-founder and CTO @ EntΔlpic |
About | Entalpic is an AI-driven materials discovery company, fostering greener and smarter industrial processes. We just raised a great seed round 🔥 |
We're hiring! | Visit our currenly open positions 🎉 |
Education
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2019 - 2024
PhD
Mila - Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
- Supervised by Prof. Yoshua Bengio
- Deep Learning Applications to Climate Change Mitigation
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Visualizing the consequences of climate change (2019-2022)
- Problematic: GANs were invented at Mila. Can we use them for good?
- Solution: Use GANs to trigger empathy through personalized visualizations of climate change-related extreme events: floods, wildfires and smog.
- Website: thisclimatedoesnotexist.com where you can search for any address on Google Street View and see what that place would look like if it were impacted by one of the aforementioned extreme events. The ultimate test set!
- Paper: ClimateGAN: Raising Climate Change Awareness by Generating Images of Floods (ICLR 2022)
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Measuring the carbon impact of AI (2019-2022)
- Problematic: AI is a promising tool to fight climate change, but it also has a carbon footprint. How can we measure it?
- Solution: create tools for the community to measure the carbon impact of their AI models and experiments.
- Online calculator: Quantifying the Carbon Emissions of Machine Learning (Climate Change AI workshop, NeurIPS 2019) -> mlco2.github.io/impact
- Python package:
codecarbon
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Materials discovery (2022-2024)
- Problematic: Materials discovery is a slow and expensive process. Can we use AI to accelerate it?
- Solution: Use GFlowNets to explore the space of electro-catalysts in order to discover materials able to improve the energy efficiency of electro-chemical reactions such as the electrolysis of water for energy storage.
- Paper: PhAST: Physics-Aware, Scalable, and Task-specific GNNs for Accelerated Catalyst Design (JMLR 2024)
- Paper: FAENet: Frame Averaging Equivariant GNN for Materials Modeling (ICML 2023)
- Paper: Crystal-GFN: sampling crystals with desirable properties and constraints (AI4Mat @ Neurips 2023)
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2016-2017
MSc. Machine Learning
University College London, London, UK
- Distinction award
- Supervised learning, Graphical models, RL, NLP, Computer Vision.
- NLP Research Internship with Prof. Sebastian Riedel (4 months, UCL Machine Reading Group): Deep RL & NLP to answer questions using Wikipedia.
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2012-2016
Engineering degree
École polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
- Entrepreneurship and Data Science majors
- Courses: Quantum Physics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Entrepreneurship, Data Science
Experience
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Jan. 2018 - Nov. 2018
NLP Data Scientist
Ministry for the Economy and Finance, Paris, France
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Public Interest Entrepreneur
- "During 10 months, a cohort of about 30 Public Interest Entrepreneurs work within public administrations in teams of 2 or 3 on challenges linked to data and digital transformation." (Etalab.gouv)
- Document classification and sentence highlighting
- Validation web app to mesure noise in the labels and improve understanding of the models.
- Project page (French)
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Public Interest Entrepreneur
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Sept. 2015 - Feb. 2016
Data Science Engineer
Rythm, Inc, Paris, France
- Deep learning infrastructure using Keras & Lasagne
- Signal quality prediction based on two seconds of electro-encephalogram signal with LSTM networks
- Backend server to store and compare predictors
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July 2014 - Aug. 2014
Software Engineer Intern
Gemalto, Singapore
- Development of a mobile web app
A Few Open Source Projects I care about
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2020-2024
PaperMemory
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A browser extension to automatically record the papers you read. Also finds code repositories and matches Arxiv papers to their published version. Never lose a paper again.
- JavaScript (+Gulp, Mocha, Pupeeteer), HTML, CSS.
- Started as a personal tool, now maintained for a community
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450+ ⭐️
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A browser extension to automatically record the papers you read. Also finds code repositories and matches Arxiv papers to their published version. Never lose a paper again.
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2020-2022
CodeCarbon
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A popular Python package to estimate the carbon footprint of your code.
- Creator of the project
- Project leader for 2 years
- Coordinator of a team of 5-10 open source contributors
- Major code contributor
- Data For Good France Season 9 leader
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1.1k+ ⭐️
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A popular Python package to estimate the carbon footprint of your code.
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2023
GitmoPy
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A simple Python CLI to use the Gitmoji convention in your commits
- Mostly a personal tool to learn how to build a Python CLI with
typer
andGitPython
- Mostly a personal tool to learn how to build a Python CLI with
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A simple Python CLI to use the Gitmoji convention in your commits
Honors and Awards
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2022
- Druide
- Antidote fellowship winner
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2017
- University College London
- Distinction
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2015
- École polytechnique
- Outstanding Investment award
Community
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Student Lab Rep
- May 2019 ➡️ Oct. 2022
- Member then Secretary General for Mila's Student LabReps organization
- Organized events for students
- Represented student interest with the profs and administration
- Contributed to shaping the ecosystem, from Mila's online presence to the office itself.
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Office Hours
- Give 1h / week to help junior Mila students (MSc., early PhD) in their research journey
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Climate Change MOOC
- MOOC lead by the department of Geography of Université de Montréal
- Goal is to educate undergrads across the board regarding causes, stakes and solutions to climate change
- Co-lead of the module on AI and climate change (5 modules in total in the MOOC)
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GFlowNets Workshop
- Lead organizer for the upcoming GFlowNet workshop at Mila (Fall 23)
Other Interests
Climbing (bouldering, top rope, lead ; gym, outdoor) | |
Tennis | |
Hiking | |
Cooking |