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 LavalMaster of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence at Université de MontréalM.Sc, Computer Science, M.Sc, Computer Science at University of Montreal
Github Skills (61)
dataset-generation10
benchmark10
dataset-generator10
satellite-imagery10
datasets10
llm10
agent10
torchvision10
prompting10
evaluation-framework10
ui-components9
earth-observation9
pytorch9
python9
geospatial9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ServiceNow/geo-bench
Aug 2023 - Oct 2024
GEO-Bench: Toward Foundation Models for Earth Monitoring
Contributions:5 reviews, 2 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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
deep-learningdatasetmachine-learningdataset-generationdataset-generator
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