Alice Lucas
Lead Computer Vision Engineer at Diffusely
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAlice Lucas is a lead computer vision engineer with nine years of experience building and shipping visual AI systems, currently finetuning diffusion models for advanced image editing and enhancement at Diffusely. She moved up from hands-on CV engineering to lead the group, driving rapid model development and cross-functional product features while fostering team innovation through journal clubs and hackathons. Her PhD from Northwestern focused on deep nets and GAN-based super-resolution, and she has applied ML in biological research at the Broad Institute and contributed to the well-known CellProfiler open-source project. Equally comfortable in research and product contexts, she translates complex AI concepts into accessible language and delivers technically excellent, user-facing functionality. Based in Paris, she combines academic rigor with production experience in generative and biological imaging, often surfacing practical optimizations that improve both model quality and developer velocity.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Baccauleat General Scientifique, Baccauleat General Scientifique at Ecole AlsacienneBachelor's degree Applied Math Engineering and Physics (AMEP), Bachelor's degree Applied Math Engineering and Physics (AMEP) at University of Wisconsin-MadisonDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Electronics Engineering (concentration in Signal Processing), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Electronics Engineering (concentration in Signal Processing) at Northwestern University
French, English
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Github Skills (10)
front-end-development10
python10
wxpython10
image-processing10
computer-engineering9
file-handling8
file-processing8
fileio8
file-access8
json7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CellProfiler/CellProfiler
Aug 2020 - Nov 2021
An open-source application for biological image analysis
Role in this project:
Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:1 release, 16 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alice contributed to the CellProfiler project by implementing new features, fixing bugs, and improving the overall functionality of the software. Their work includes optimizing the rendering of the file list, fixing dragging issues on macOS, and adding a warning for large image sets to improve user experience. They also added execution times for database exports and implemented a new Windows menu feature.
image-analysispythonneuroimagingbiologicalmicroscopy
alicelucas/papers
Dec 2020 - Jan 2022
Tool to gather and organize summaries of ML papers
Contributions:2 PRs, 138 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
organizesummariesmachine-learninggather
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