Jean Mercat
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Experience
Research Scientist
Toyota Research Institute
July 2021 – Present
Research in LLMs, VLMs, and applications in Robotics
Pre-training LLMs (up to 7B for 1T tokens), multi-modal models
Manage interns and university collaborators
Data Engineer
Inria
January 2017 – August 2017
C++/PostgreSQL API to handle Medical DICOM data from various sources.
Research Engineer
Bordeaux University
January 2016 – December 2016
Image processing in C++, Qt, and Cimg for pattern analysis of 2D atomic force microscope images of bloc-copolymer molecules.
Education
PhD Machine Learning
Paris Saclay University, L2S and Renault
September 2017 – March 2021
Generative Neural Networks for Time Series Forecasting (RNN, CNN, (C)VAE, Self-Attention)
Research and Applications
Won the Argoverse Motion Forecasting Competition in 2019 and 2020
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MEng in Scientific Computing
ENSEIRB-MatMéca, Bordeaux, France
September 2012 – September 2015
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
Python
Pytorch
Data Science
Hobbies
Paragliding
Hiking
Science
Languages
100%
French
99%
English