Alexandre Lacoste
Staff Research Scientist at ServiceNow
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolAlexandre Lacoste is a Staff Research Scientist based in Montreal with 12 years of experience driving AI and research-first engineering at ServiceNow and prior software engineering at Google. He holds advanced degrees in computer science and AI from Université Laval and Université de Montréal and completed a PhD that underpins his long-term focus on principled ML research and productization. Alexandre has transitioned from hardware and control systems early in his career (designing efficient PMSM motor controllers) into large-scale AI research and engineering, giving him a rare blend of applied systems thinking and theoretical depth. At ServiceNow Research he progressed from Senior to Staff Research Scientist, leading work that bridges research prototypes and production-grade AI features. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic scientist who ships robust solutions and mentors teams to turn complex research into reliable products.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
cégep andré laurendeauPh.D Computer Science, Ph.D Computer Science at Laval UniversityPhD computer science, PhD computer science at Université LavalBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Université de MontréalM.Sc Computer Science, M.Sc Computer Science at University of Montreal
Github Skills (64)
dataset-generation10
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servicenow10
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llm10
agent10
ai10
torchvision10
prompting10
evaluation-framework10
pre-trained-model9
ui-components9
earth-observation9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ServiceNow/AgentLab
Jun 2024 - Jan 2026
AgentLab: An open-source framework for developing, testing, and benchmarking web agents on diverse tasks, designed for scalability and reproducibility.
Contributions:132 reviews, 105 PRs, 275 pushes in 1 year 7 months
benchmarkingtestingagentsbenchmarkevaluation-framework
ServiceNow/synbols
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
The Synbols dataset generator is a ServiceNow Research project that was started at Element AI.
Contributions:12 reviews, 294 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 6 months
aidataset-generatorservicenowmachine-learningdataset
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