Summary
Bertrand Lebichot is a Senior Data Scientist with eight years of experience blending academic research and industry delivery, currently driving NLP and speech-to-text initiatives for the Smart Automation Team at BNP Paribas Fortis. He maintains concurrent academic roles—teaching at UCL Mons and a history of research positions—bringing rigorous methods from graph mining, transfer learning and fraud detection into production-grade fintech solutions. His background as a post-doc and research collaborator with banks and telecoms gives him a rare ability to translate cross-domain insights (e.g., transfer learning between related tasks) into practical classifiers and detection systems. Comfortable with deep learning toolkits like Keras and experienced in end-to-end deployment, he pairs strong teaching and supervision skills with hands-on engineering. Based in Belgium, he also curates his research and projects online, demonstrating a continuous commitment to open scholarship and applied ML.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Biomedical Civil Engineer; Option in data processing and biomaterials, Master, Biomedical Civil Engineer; Option in data processing and biomaterials at 2009-2011
Doctor of Engineering Science, Data mining / Machine Learning, -, Doctor of Engineering Science, Data mining / Machine Learning, - at Université catholique de Louvain
French, English, German, Dutch