Christophe Van Gysel
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Shopify
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChristophe Van Gysel is a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 14 years of experience building deployed ML systems, currently leading search and discovery efforts at Shopify after several years developing speech recognition at Apple. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam and blends academic rigor in language modeling, IR, and speech with extensive industry experience delivering production-ready models. Christophe’s background spans research fellowships and internships at major labs (Google, Microsoft, Snap) and practical engineering roles, giving him a rare combination of deep research expertise and large-scale product implementation. Based in Somerville, MA, he focuses on turning cutting-edge NLP and speech research into usable systems, and his career shows a consistent thread of improving search and voice experiences across consumer platforms.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at University of AntwerpDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of AmsterdamHigh school Economics/Languages, High school Economics/Languages at Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-van-Lourdescollege
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (33)
gensim10
word2vec10
evaluation10
fasttext10
eval10
topic-modeling10
expressions9
latent-dirichlet-allocation9
lda9
corpus9
word-embeddings9
information-retrieval9
data-mining9
python-interface9
theano9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cvangysel/pytrec_eval
Feb 2019 - Sep 2020
pytrec_eval is an Information Retrieval evaluation tool for Python, based on the popular trec_eval.
Contributions:1 review, 2 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 6 months
pythonevaluationtrec-evalevalretrieval
cvangysel/cvangysel-common
Oct 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
nlppythondealvectorsmachine-learning
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