Clément Godard
Staff Research Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolClément Godard is a Staff Research Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience bridging academic rigour and production ML systems, holding a PhD from UCL in Virtual Environments, Interaction and Visualisation. He has led research and engineering at Google, Niantic and Skydio, applying computer vision and deep learning to real-world perception problems for robotics and AR. His open-source contributions include bug fixes and test-mode enhancements to the well-known Monodepth depth-prediction project, reflecting a focus on robust evaluation and practical tooling. Known for bringing research prototypes into production-ready pipelines, he combines strong theoretical background with hands-on debugging of edge cases such as grayscale image handling and checkpoint management.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering degree, Sciences of information, Energy & Systems, Engineering degree, Sciences of information, Energy & Systems at École Supérieure d'ÉlectricitéUniversity College London
English, French
Github Skills (7)
computer-vision10
machine-learning10
tensorflow10
python10
unsupervised-learning9
faster-rcnn8
mask-rcnn8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mrharicot/monodepth
Apr 2017 - May 2019
Unsupervised single image depth prediction with CNNs
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:28 commits, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Clément primarily contributed to bug fixes and implemented a new test mode within the monodepth framework. Their work included correcting issues in evaluation and stereo training functions, demonstrating a focus on improving the accuracy and functionality of the depth prediction model. Further contributions addressed a bug related to black and white image inputs in test mode and included a fix related to checkpoint file paths.
pytorchpredictiondeep-learningcnnssingle-image
mrharicot/myrtille
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:60 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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